Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
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#262Canada has unofficially banned the sale of theirdevices, or at least that’s why eBay said the Canadian government told them to not allow their sale. Though eBay.ca just blocked any listing containing the word “xiaomi”, though they make a ton of things that aren’t phones. I just took out xiaomi and left the model number and sold my thing. Still waiting for my government to respond to my request to find out why.
Xiaomi devices are not and never were certified for use in Canada.
Doesn’t usually result in the government requesting a stop-sale on eBay. Happened on newegg too:
(Amp link because Reddit is actually down)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comment...
Though you can still roam in Canada with them, so I don’t know how that works. Shouldn’t base stations reject uncertified device IMEIs? I guess it’s all okay as long as there’s revenue to be had.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
"People's Daily newspaper" is a pretty big counterexample that everyone is conveniently ignoring.
The common thread here is how Beijing is afraid from organized ethnic minority movements, religious movements and/or societies from the civil society that could have their own independent ideas. They are not that different from other Leninist inspired governments. Cuba does that. Vietnam does that. The Soviet Union certainly did that. These governments always lose their minds with the idea of people organizing themse…
People's Daily is an official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, i.e. "Beijing". Perhaps this fact can improve your analysis.
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
The scan is not for English words. Extract from table 14.... =================================================== No.: Original - Approximate translation 1 "宗教虔信者阵线", “Front of religious believers”, ... 22 "西藏自由", “Free Tibet”, ... 60 "蒙古独立", “Independence of Mongolia”, 61 "89民运", “89 Democracy Movement”, 62 "基督灵恩布道团", “Christian charismatic mission”, ... 145 "伊斯兰联盟", “Islamic League”, ... 201 "民运", “Democratic Moveme…
Sent from my Xiaomi device: No.: Original - Approximate translation 1 "宗教虔信者阵线", “Front of religious believers”, ... 22 "西藏自由", “Free Tibet”, ... 60 "蒙古独立", “Independence of Mongolia”, 61 "89民运", “89 Democracy Movement”, 62 "基督灵恩布道团", “Christian charismatic mission”, ... 145 "伊斯兰联盟", “Islamic League”, ... 201 "民运", “Democratic Movement”, 202 "妇女委员会", “Women’s Committee”, 203 "伊斯兰马格里布基地组织", “Al-Qaida in the Islamic Ma…
Are you in mainland China? Because the article clearly states that this functionality is disabled in phones manufactured for export to the West.
Edit to add: page 24 of the linked PDF, for reference.
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#266From the shared PDF page 23... "It has been established that during the initialisation of the system applications factory-installed on a Xiaomi Mi 10T device, these applications contact a server in Singapore at the address globalapi.ad.xiaomi.com (IP address 47.241.69.153) and download the JSON file MiAdBlacklistConfig, and save this file in the metadata catalogues of the applications. A list of applications for whic…
This is pretty clearly a low-effort filter for advertisements deemed political. > 204 "人民报", “People’s daily newspaper” People's Daily is an official Communist Party newspaper... Why on earth would they blocklist that if this is a politically-motivated censorship program (as the paper/many here are implying)?
Renminbao [人民报] is an independent Chinese online news website that criticizes the Chinese regime.
First result, funnily enough via a site that tracks phrases censored in China.
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#267"Free Tibet", "Long live Taiwan independence" or "democracy movement". Sent from my Xiaomi, let's see if it works. Anyway, I always thought if I have to use American phone backdoored by FBI or Chinese phone backdoored by China, I choose Chinese because they really cannot arrest me, unlike FBI.
backdoored by FBI : Which phone is that?
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#268The blacklist is interesting, because it maybe shows China's government interests - some of which are not widely known: - "Independence of Mongolia" - Does this show they would like to acquire Mongolia (when the time will be appropriate)? - "The Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine" - Does this show pro-Israel support?
"People's Daily newspaper" is a pretty big counterexample that everyone is conveniently ignoring.
It's not the mainland China paper if you search for the Chinese characters.
Renminbao [人民报] is an independent Chinese online news website that criticizes the Chinese regime.
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#269pdf of the report being reported on: https://www.nksc.lt/doc/en/analysis/2021-08-23_5G-CN-analysi...
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not even just that but magisk modules can show phone as stock to banking apps and such. Really this all just shows that people will truly put up with anything to make their lives more convenient, or for them to have to do less work.
> truly put up with anything to make their lives more convenient This is a contradiction in terms.
No it's not.
That's the reality we live in. They will put up with being spied upon 24/7 for the convenience of a cheap phone they can't be bothered to root and ROM.