Comment by khazhoux

See, that's exactly what I mean.

Here [1], CISA assesses China-made drones as a national security risk. That is a non-partisan agency. But your response is:

* American tech companies are just as data-hungry, if not more. -> irrelevant, this is about foreign cyberattacks or foreign data mining

* China produces more user-controllable devices than American brands. -> irrelevant

* Boogeyman -> Scare word

* Ignoring the much larger and complicated problem -> Deflects and says we can't do /anything/ unless we consider all angles and do /everthing/

This leads to endless handwringing, and is one of the reasons the left has support of only 50% of Americans, when it should be (in my opinion) a huge majority. Because we're endlessly caught up in the attitude of "nope, we really can't do anything in the face of obviously problematic issues." Gosh, it feels racist to ban a Chinese tech company (even though the Chinese government does actually target our cyber infrastructure). Gosh, what about the bad American companies?

[1] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24362988/cybersecurit...