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If the FCC Bans Burner Phones, It Could Be a Privacy Nightmare (www.cnet.com)
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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

They're a low cost way of building out robo-call infrastructure. But this does nothing to prevent malicious actors from getting their hands on cheap hardware.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago*

    Yep. Just another means to control the populace and extract more money out of them.

    Look at programs like MethCheck, putting pseudoephedrine products behind the counter and putting a limit on purchasing...requiring ID to purchase.

    So now we've got:

    • A limit on how much Sudafed we can buy (without a prescription, which is it's own level of bullshit because now you gotta see a doctor)
    • A requirement to have valid state-issued ID to purchase medicine.
    • Phenylephrine, a glorified placebo, taking over all cold medicine.
    • Poor people can't steal medicine (I see this as a con)
    • Smurfs.
    • Just as much meth.
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