• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    14 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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      14 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.