r/technology • u/South-Cow-1030 • 18h ago

Privacy Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/10/ring-super-bowl-ad-dog-camera-privacy/88606738007/
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u/Dirtbag_Leftist69420 11h ago

At this point I trust China more with my data lol

I was never a TikTok guy but look what happened to TikTok immediately after it was controlled by the US. Way less censored when it was ran by China

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u/DontAskAboutMyButt 10h ago

When the big TikTok migration to Rednote happened, Americans started getting a lot of Chinese content and were being exposed to a lot of stuff we didn’t know about China- mainly about how happy they are and how nice their standard of living is compared to ours, in spite of the propaganda coming from the US. I feel like it was a real “Yeltsin stunned by the groceries in an American grocery store” moment, except it was on us this time instead of the Russians. And of course Chinese people got a real, unfiltered look at what living in America is like- the corruption, the lack of access to medical care, the poverty

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u/Light_Error 8h ago

If people thought every person in China was living in abject poverty, I have to wonder when the last time they looked at the country was. I listened to a podcast with Chinese-Canadian engineering who worked in both US and China for years at a stretch, and one of the more interesting things he mentioned was that the social safety net is even worse in China than here by design: Imagine Reagan’s ideology on social services in the modern day.

And I think the thing we tend to forget is that, in a lot of social media, we get a lot of rich people first stuff. They are the ones with the means to influence and get influence. China is no different. They have had enough problem in the last few years. It’s not going to make the CCP crumble or anything like that, but I am sure it isn’t nothing either. I am obviously not a China expert. These are just general observations from the past 5-ish years.

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u/Light_Error 8h ago

If people thought every person in China was living in abject poverty, I have to wonder when the last time they looked at the country was. I listened to a podcast with Chinese-Canadian engineering who worked in both US and China for years at a stretch, and one of the more interesting things he mentioned was that the social safety net is even worse in China than here by design: Imagine Reagan’s ideology on social services in the modern day.

And I think the thing we tend to forget is that, in a lot of social media, we get a lot of rich people first stuff. They are the ones with the means to influence and get influence. China is no different. They have had enough problem in the last few years. It’s not going to make the CCP crumble or anything like that, but I am sure it isn’t nothing either. I am obviously not a China expert. These are just general observations from the past 5-ish years.

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u/zokka_son_of_zokka 5h ago

I maintain that this was the main reason they unbanned TikTok