The cult of personality losing its figurehead would cause a significant amount of people to have second thoughts.

That might be enough of a push to get the ball rolling.

No firewall, you’ll just have to log into the Internet via a federal ID and speeds will be cut in half because every packet gets copied to a government server for evidence against you-- I mean, to protect the children.

Cheaper to manufacture, yes, but then they’d lose all the sweet residuals from selling consumer data.

No one checks the privacy policy for a dishwasher. If a washing machine can send over 3gb of data in a day, I’d bet every other “smart” appliance is doing something similar.

Lick

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OF model Barbie.

In the box there’s just a little laptop with some pictures. If you pay $49.99/mo, once a week you get an hour long Livestream of someone else playing with the Barbie however you tell them to.