• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      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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        12 days 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.