I started typing a large response to this but I ended up realizing it was pointless.
Rest assured: AI is your “reward” for your loyalty to the USA’s propaganda line. You get replaced and discarded, because to them, you are expendable.
Don’t worry, the strait will remain closed for months, so you won’t have to worry about production.
More will come of this and if developers like this keep volunteering themselves to help the fascists, we will all be fucked. Here’s an alternative approach: just don’t add this. You can fight back by not fucking implementing this. Easy.
Only thing you get out of this compared to the alternative of malicious compliance is opening yourself up to attack. You can still fight this without painting a big target on your back.
I don’t see how engaging in malicious compliance is being a useful idiot. Implementing the entire surveillance mechanism free of charge, that I would call being a useful idiot.
Purposefully implementing a broken feature to satisfy the letter of the law, while preserving the user’s ability to avoid the surveillance mechanism is certainly not that.
I thought this was a Republican initially – but nope, introduced by a Democrat.
Welp, wave goodbye to the free internet.
The EU true believers I know are incapable of comprehending this. They are steadfast in their conviction that this is all just temporary.
On a similar note, the UFO sightings from yesteryear are the drone sightings of today.
It was Aliens Putin
The response is: “Please, and thank you!”
Block-chain!
Yeah, if he did, it might be necessary to hold elections even. And that would just be terrible!
According to people who do not live in the DPRK
Ultimately, the sentiment isn’t completely wrong. Using a different browser isn’t going to save you from being tracked. Using one or multiple browser extensions isn’t going to save you from being tracked. Using a VPN isn’t even going to save you from being tracked.
Accounts are pretty much required to use most sites, and many also require connecting a phone number or other personal details. Privacy is actively discouraged, and attempting to pursue it leaves you with many hardships – by design I would argue. You buy a product on one site, with no prior search history about it, and suddenly you start getting emails from unrelated sites about similar products. In capitalism, any information about your habits and interests also becomes a commodity. Why shouldn’t people dismiss privacy in favor of convenience, in such a system? It seems futile to even try.
And if your government is determined to figure out who you are online, then it will. Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t know what you’ve been up to, here or otherwise.
The people who are forced to the frontline certainly do.
The enemy is both weak and strong.
No point in contributing to a hostile organization.
Happened with Tears of the Kingdom too iirc.
Just crank your hog man 
Pretty sure that making the AI profits fall will be very good for hardware.