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📢 BREAKING: American buys Chinese watch, feels like Benedict Arnold! 🇺🇸➡️🇨🇳 In a shocking twist, our brave patriot is now the proud owner of a #Huawei gadget, *gasp*, immediately questioning allegiance to the homeland. Because nothing screams "traitor" like opting for Chinese tech over an American-made Casio. 🙄⌚
https://musgrave.substack.com/p/oh-no-i-betrayed-america #AmericanTech #Patriotism #Gadgets #Controversy #ConsumerChoice #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 Welcome to 2025, where Teenage Engineering thinks it's reinventing #capitalism by letting you choose how much to pay for their overpriced bleep-bloop toy! 🤔 "Vote with your wallets," they say, as if the average consumer is yearning to be part of a capitalist social experiment that’s as reliable as a wet paper towel. 💸
https://teenage.engineering/ #TeenageEngineering #Innovation #ConsumerChoice #BleepBloopToy #HackerNews #ngated

One of the main fallacies propagated repeatedly by companies and brands is the overemphasis on #consumerchoice as the real driver of the #ecologicaldamage being done to the planet. In reality, there’s a clear lack of meaningful action from large #companies when it comes to taking responsibility.

https://www.rethinkeconomics.org/blog/2025/05/24/food-and-the-myth-of-consumer-choice/

Next up is the EU is demanding Apple to allow you to mix and match your earbuds! Imagine buying ONE AirPod and pairing it with a Samsung or Sony earbud on the other ear—and they'd actually work together!

This will be the next chapter in the EU's push for tech interoperability.

#TechNews #EURegulation #Interoperability #ConsumerChoice

Since there's no way to opt-out of Youtube's ridiculous new #UI designed for children on touchscreens, I'll just not watch #Youtube

Sometimes, it really is that simple. The choice is yours.
#consumerchoice #darkpatterns

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission engages in consent decree talks with Google over YouTube Music bundling practices, addressing consumer choice concerns in digital services.
#YonhapInfomax #FairTradeCommission #Google #YouTubeMusic #ConsentDecree #ConsumerChoice #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=58943

If the USA wanted me to buy their products, then they should sell them in Malaysian Ringgit (MYR). So far, it seems that only Chinese companies have done this for the Malaysian market. There are even many flagship phones priced at RM1000++ instead of iPhones priced at RM5000++. What Chinese companies offer us is better because of competitive specifications as well as competitive prices, and more control due to the Android OS, rather than iOS by default, which I don't trust Apple to handle my data. Chinese companies have addressed the issues of affordability and accessibility to technology for Malaysians, while the USA only sells products that we use to show off or appear superior to others. Is the USA trying to force us to buy their products? This seems like modern authoritarianism to me.

#TechInMalaysia #USChinaTech #AffordableTech #MalaysianMarket #TechAccessibility #Smartphones #EconomicPolicies #ConsumerChoice #TechCompetition #AndroidVsiOS #DataPrivacy #EconomicInfluence #GlobalTech #ConsumerRights #MarketDynamics #TechInnovation #LocalEconomy #ConsumerTrust #ModernAuthoritarianism

It's time to join forces!

#TrumpTariffs #US #Tariffs #TeslaCybertruck #ElectricVehicles #AutomotiveIndustry #ConsumerAwareness #SustainableLiving #EthicalChoices #TeslaCritic #TradeWar #ConsumerChoice #TeslaNews #Tesla #ElonMusk #ConsumerAwareness #EthicalChoices #TeslaCybertruck #TeslaCritic #ElonMusk

The image depicts a penguin standing on rocky terrain near a body of water, holding a stick and pointing at a canvas. The canvas features a drawing of a seagull in flight above a stylized Tesla Cybertruck. Three seagulls are attentively observing the penguin and the canvas. The penguin is black and white, with a distinctive black head and white belly, while the seagulls have white bodies with gray wings. The background shows a calm blue sea, enhancing the coastal setting. The penguin appears to be presenting or explaining the Cybertruck to the seagulls, creating a whimsical and educational scene.

不要买特斯拉汽车。它们一点也不酷。
Bù yāo mǎi tè sī lā qìchē. Tāmen yīdiǎn yě bù kù.

Don't buy Tesla cars. They are not cool at all. (This is a very literal and straightforward translation from Chinese). Let's help the Chinese people make up their minds! Please share!

#teslaTakeDown #tradewar #electricvehicles #Tesla #automotive #carbuying #consumerchoice #TeslaCritic #TeslaReview

Sen. Mark Kelly's bold move to ditch his Tesla raises questions about brand loyalty. A personal disillusionment with Elon Musk over his controversial decisions has led Kelly to reconsider driving a car that represents values he cannot support. This decision highlights the impact of leadership on consumer choices and speaks to broader political and ethical concerns. Read more about this intriguing story [here](https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/mark-kelly-ditching-his-tesla-built-and). #MarkKelly #Tesla #ElonMusk #ConsumerChoice #BrandLoyalty

9️⃣ Contrast that with LASIK eye surgery and cosmetic procedures—where prices are known upfront and have dropped over time due to competition. Transparency works. #UpfrontPricing #ConsumerChoice

In support of #DEI, is it enough to pick where you shop? Can you pick where you shop?

A look at voting with your dollar - https://buff.ly/3EcIy8e

#capitalism #employeesupport #homedelivery #shipping #Amazon #Costco #Walmart #HEB #shopping #consumerchoice

In support of #DEI, is it enough to pick where you shop? Can you pick where you shop?

A look at the complexity of voting with your dollar - https://buff.ly/3EcIy8e

#capitalism #employeesupport #homedelivery #shipping #Amazon #Costco #Walmart #HEB #shopping #consumerchoice

In support of #DEI, is it enough to pick where you shop? Can you pick where you shop?

A look at the complexity of voting with your dollar - https://buff.ly/3EcIy8e

#capitalism #employeesupport #homedelivery #shipping #Amazon #Costco #Walmart #HEB #shopping #consumerchoice

Italy is losing its mind because of copyright: it just made its awful Piracy Shield even worse

Walled Culture has been writing about Italy’s Piracy Shield system for a year now. It was clear from early on that its approach of blocking Internet addresses (IP addresses) to fight alleged copyright infringement – particularly the streaming of football matches – was flawed, and risked turning into another fiasco like France’s failed Hadopi law. The central issue with Piracy Shield is […]

#consumerChoice #dns #football #freedomOfSpeech #google #infringement #ipAddress #italy #overblocking #piracyShield #prison #security #streaming #transparency #vpn

https://walledculture.org/italy-is-losing-its-mind-because-of-copyright-it-just-made-its-awful-piracy-shield-even-worse/

I declare the push to make environmentalism a #consumerchoice a failure. A failure both in results & social structure.

Environmentalism-as-consumerism has not only failed to stop environmental decay, but it has created deep divisions that have become political.

A grave mistake.

We injected taking care of the environment into the forever class war between the haves and the have-nots.

I conclude the only real ecological action is to make the environmentally friendly a cheaper option.

Just dusted off my newsletter to publish a proposal for the glut of consumer AI we're seeing now, with a simple proposal:

Build as much AI as you would like into your products, but do so in a way that allows users to bring their own AIs, instead of being forced to use the platforms':

https://www.notesfromthevoid.cc/p/consumer-ai-a-simple-proposal

#GenerativeAI #Enshittfication #LockIn #ConsumerChoice #UserControl #Antitrust #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #Android #GoogleIO

What if AI is the broccoli of technology? Tech companies keep saying it's good for us, but maybe we're just not ready for that much fiber! #AIEthics #AIControl #ConsumerChoice