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PEnns Makes you wonder what research or evidence our government relied on when declaring this product (and others) a "National Security Threat". Reply
helper800 PEnns said: Makes you wonder what research or evidence our government relied on when declaring this product (and others) a "National Security Threat". Obviously none at all. Top down vibes based governance from the current administration in all things as per usual. Reply
chaos215bar2 PEnns said: Makes you wonder what research or evidence our government relied on when declaring this product (and others) a "National Security Threat". DJI was called a threat by default, because the government never actually did the audit required by law within the necessary timeframe. Presumably they were worried it wouldn't turn up whatever they were looking for. Reply
Notton I'm not saying there's a pattern, but usually some rich guy will complain to the white house, and a few days later said things get banned. be it DJI, routers, or a cross-border bridge. Reply
JakobePaulobe Notton said: I'm not saying there's a pattern, but usually some rich guy will complain to the white house, and a few days later said things get banned. be it DJI, routers, or a cross-border bridge. In this case it was largely thanks to lobbying efforts by Skydio and their ceo Adam Bry, who went out of his way to get as much of Skydio's competiton in the US eliminated by regulatory action as possible, while simultaneously pulling out of the consumer market. For someone who's supposedly a "drone enthusiast", Adam Bry really doesn't seem to want anyone else to be able to fly drones. Classic ladder pulling. Reply
endocine Well there is this though : "While DJI maintains that the OnDefend audit was conducted independently, DJI did authorize and pay for it, and the overall arrangement differs from a government-directed review, which would have been conducted under federal oversight with no financial relationship to the subject." That's about the same as a major pharma company funding a study on a new drug. Doesn't mean it isn't valid, but uh…. Reply
USAFRet JakobePaulobe said: In this case it was largely thanks to lobbying efforts by Skydio and their ceo Adam Bry, who went out of his way to get as much of Skydio's competiton in the US eliminated by regulatory action as possible, while simultaneously pulling out of the consumer market. For someone who's supposedly a "drone enthusiast", Adam Bry really doesn't seem to want anyone else to be able to fly drones. Classic ladder pulling. And I was right on the edge of buying a Skydio when they pulled out of the consumer market. Like…days edge. Reply
PEnns Notton said: I'm not saying there's a pattern, but usually some rich guy will complain to the white house, and a few days later said things get banned. be it DJI, routers, or a cross-border bridge. Actually, it has become a pattern!! Plenty of rich guys / Tech Bros with deep pockets deciding what is "good AND SAFE for the country"…for quite a while now. Reply
Mindstab Thrull endocine said: Well there is this though : "While DJI maintains that the OnDefend audit was conducted independently, DJI did authorize and pay for it, and the overall arrangement differs from a government-directed review, which would have been conducted under federal oversight with no financial relationship to the subject." That's about the same as a major pharma company funding a study on a new drug. Doesn't mean it isn't valid, but uh…. Except that's the same kind of process so many other companies go through for their products: "we need <X> tested for <Y> so we'll call up known company <Z> who tests these things and go through their process to make sure we're good." We can be cynical about it, but sometimes it's as simple as "run the tests you'd run anyways" – and also, the versions of the products bought were off the shelf, not supplied by DJI. All OnDefend has to do is say "we ran our regular tests and published the results, all DJI did was pay for them." Otherwise we couldn't trust any testing organization who gets the products supplied and/or methodology financed by the company being tested. Mindstab Thrull Reply
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