I refuse to buy a smart TV or any smart device. It's literally impossible to purchase a new TV from the store that is not "smart". People are too stupid to realize they are bugging their own homes for the Police State.
Soon they will only sell electronics with spy devices implanted. They will also convince consumers it's an amazing new feature everyone would love to have.
Met a woman that grew up in Eastern Bloc pre and during WWII. She was incredibly sharp, and talked about how one day there was a program to give everyone free radios. One time her family was talking the wrong way and the KGB showed up. The "free" radios came with bugs that were being actively monitored. She then went on to laugh cynically and say that people today are so blind they can actually charge them for the ability to monitor them; and that's what has happened.
This was a couple years back. She was in her nineties (I think, that's what the math seems to say) and was smarter than probably 95% of the populace of all ages.
Pretty sure the closest thing she received to formal higher education was being put through Nazi labor programs when they occupied her area (following their defeat, she escaped to the west, but her family remained in Eastern Europe [she had already been separated by the Nazis]. She didn't talk to them again for like, 20 years, and even then, they had to be very careful about how they corresponded to avoid her family getting disappeared.)
How quickly people forget the lessons of the past.
And yet, I remember there being a big issue with Obama and his BlackBerry when he first was in office. And Trump’s tweets always came from an iPhone. I’m sure they have “special” phones but that never sat right with me. And, honestly, who’s going to deny the President access to his phone? Quite alarming when you think about it.
I refuse to buy a smart TV or any smart device. It's literally impossible to purchase a new TV from the store that is not "smart". People are too stupid to realize they are bugging their own homes for the Police State.
Soon they will only sell electronics with spy devices implanted. They will also convince consumers it's an amazing new feature everyone would love to have.
Met a woman that grew up in Eastern Bloc pre and during WWII. She was incredibly sharp, and talked about how one day there was a program to give everyone free radios. One time her family was talking the wrong way and the KGB showed up. The "free" radios came with bugs that were being actively monitored. She then went on to laugh cynically and say that people today are so blind they can actually charge them for the ability to monitor them; and that's what has happened.
This was a couple years back. She was in her nineties (I think, that's what the math seems to say) and was smarter than probably 95% of the populace of all ages.
Pretty sure the closest thing she received to formal higher education was being put through Nazi labor programs when they occupied her area (following their defeat, she escaped to the west, but her family remained in Eastern Europe [she had already been separated by the Nazis]. She didn't talk to them again for like, 20 years, and even then, they had to be very careful about how they corresponded to avoid her family getting disappeared.)
How quickly people forget the lessons of the past.
And yet, I remember there being a big issue with Obama and his BlackBerry when he first was in office. And Trump’s tweets always came from an iPhone. I’m sure they have “special” phones but that never sat right with me. And, honestly, who’s going to deny the President access to his phone? Quite alarming when you think about it.