[notliketherest]

Could just as easily be restated: If you don't want to speak out against China then don't live in China. Increasingly these transnational corporations have become in some cases more powerful than states, recording our every movement online and offline, curating what news we read and pushing their agendas and biases.

[kobeya]

I didn't have any trouble choosing not to buy Echo/Alexis/whatever.

[mmirate]

Yet. First it will be extra features and conveniences to miss; after some time (cheaper hardware etc etc) it will become feasible that all nontrivial Amazon interactions must go through Alexa.

[kobeya]

Alexa is never going to reach the market penetration necessary for that to be plausible.