It isn't about you. China doesn't care about you. If they have a computer tracking cell network info of groups of soldiers, they can glean actionable information about US military posture. They can do large-scale data analysis on the information they have and get a startling amount of information. They can also use it as a vector for injecting their favorite form of aggression against the US, soft power. They can't defeat the US in a fight, but economic and cultural warfare is a vulnerability in the US where the battleground is far more level.
The incoming administration has indicated it plans to further increase the US's military strength, which is functionally untouchable as it stands and is more than ready for the fight nobody plans to bring against it, while weakening the actual fight we are seeing. The US is objectively safer, however little, against the machinations of the CCP with tiktok gone, but it is a band-aid on a firehose. Also, the CCP is clearly ready for that move given the move to Redbook, likely stoked by CCP operators under the guise of "haha let's go to another Chinese app, that'll show 'em!" because Americans are very easy to predict and manipulate...they are born and raised to be manipulated.
It's rough, but quite interesting to see play out.
I would imagine it gets samey day after day and is just a job that pays the bills. I know a girl that does such acting and it really is just a day job, I imagine the crew have even less investment after a while.
It isn't Nintendo's responsibility...they could help by putting something noticable on the outside of the case, like the ring you have to remove on the milk jug cap, but that would take whole new packing machines and processes.
It would be simpler to just deny electronic divice returns for any reason. Caviat Emptor!
We have a puppet coming into the presidency. China will have all the inroads to our government they care to pay for. Tencent and Co. will be a non-issue.
Quick article skim, but I didn't see where it said he was ex-military. I see a lot of past tense that could be interpreted as that, or as "the guy is dead and entirely past tense now". I may have missed it.
He was likely making a statement and wanted fire and noise more than demolition and death (granted he also probably didn't care if some people around it got hurt). It's pathetic.
Saying this as an ex-soldier: The highly trained special forces are just as susceptible to psyops as the people they use them on. Sometimes more so because "if it was used on them, they would know better from experience" as they drink two more scoops of hooah Kool Ade. Nationalism isn't patriotism, and patriotism is earned and not irrevocable.
That soldier was lied to and manipulated, and fell for it.
If you watch far more right-winger media and insulate yourself from reality, you will see it everywhere.
EDIT: "He was stationed in Germany, but was back stateside on approved leave." Ah, that tells me he was still active, or I am at least comfortable assuming that is the case. Still, a good call on the 19 years. That woulda been super sus.
It can be a corporate move to out competition AND also improve security. These are not mutually exclusive.