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And then possession of such an object would be a chargable offense.

We gave away all our electronics manufacturing to a government dedicated towards making computers as we understood them back in the 80's and 90's _useless_.

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Imo, it would be tough to regulate such a device though. It could be a mere router that is rooted with custom firmware or a Raspberry Pi. Not to mention, China is the manufacturing hub for most of these electronics, they have a lot of the components there as well to help you build one from "scratch" if you really want to.

Regulating the distribution of electronics at such a micro scale would be detrimental to businesses and startups in China.

Followup: useless, that is, except for the party.

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