Personally, I'm not adversely impacted by the Tik Tok ban. But please don't mess with DJI, I want to get a Mini 4 sometime.
If there was some hidden Chinese malware or backdoor stuff, I'm sure someone is smart enough to find it. I'd be more worried about Teslas or TVs made in China.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-in...ly%20be%20over.
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U.S. authorities have their sights set on China-based drone maker DJI, a company that has popularised drones for consumer and commercial markets globally. The U.S. Congress intends to ban it, as they have begun to see DJI as a national security threat. Once the bipartisan legislation passes and the firm is added to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) communications infrastructure blocklist, DJI's business in the U.S. will effectively be over.
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Representative Elise Stefanik, the New York senator said, "DJI presents an unacceptable national security risk, and it is past time that drones made by Communist China are removed from America." DJI however refutes these claims. Regina Lin the spokesperson for DJI denied its drones were used for human rights violations as they are not made for surveillance.
While the company does not sell drones for military purposes, DJI drones are known to have been used in Russia's war against Ukraine. Its products were also used to spy on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, though no ban was issued as a direct response at the time. If one imposes the same treatment on other companies, many entities would fall under it. Divesting or discouraging companies that actively engage in human rights violations is important, irrespective of which side they are from.
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