No More DJI drones? Your thoughts?

[FlyingClayDisk]

Ah, I see now.

Yes, perhaps the focus on the accepted excuse for the legislation as "Chinese spying" is an incomplete or a cosmetic matter. 
Where they might get better results (given the focus) is if they actually scrutinized and acted against manufacturers of components which specifically lead to the whole 'streaming data' to someone other than the owners/operators. That seems to me a matter of engineering and design... enabling and perhaps hardcoding the capability within the device.

The brand itself is only a corporate label... a revenue repository, as it were.
I don't disagree that this restriction is a half-measure which plays well as a dramatic aspect of the story... but really doesn't address the problem itself.

As to why it matters here in the OP is relatively simple... it is the subject offered up for discussion.  A request for our thoughts...

Appreciate the reply, as always, Max.  I just wanted to clarify my intent.

Discussion, as always, is welcomed!!

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panda got some chonk goin when ya pronebone her:

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Edit: Sorry, that was a might vulgar. This is the DJI Mini 2.

My point exactly.  DJI is not a silcon chip manufacturer, nor a printed circuit board manufacturer.  This stuff was all contracted out.

Thanks for the pic.  It exemplifies exactly what I'm talking about. 

The notion that DJI, as a company, manufactures all the "guts" of these drones is just, well, silly.  This goes far deeper than what we see at the surface in the House and Senate!

This is about..."Do as we say...not as we do!"

It's about control.

And to 'flyguy' who suggests there are lots of other methods more clandestine to suppress freedom...well, you'll get no argument from me.  I am just pointing out this one, likely one of many, for y'all's consideration.  Yes, there are constraints on freedom too numerous to mention; don't you think we should flag them ALL up? 

This is a big one in my opinion (right next to firearms, but I've kept firearms out of this discussion intentionally, so as not to distract the point).