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Well, if it ridiculously easy to work around, they will probably get flak even earlier, harder, and be legislated to the ground more certainly than otherwise. I spoke with Frank Wang on a few meetups in Shenzhen many years ago, back when DJI was still kind of a garage company. Frank had big, nebulous ideas how he will be "engaging the civil society," "stakeholder negotiations," "industry wide self-governance body" blah blah blah to safeguard DJI from troubles. I told him hiring lobbyists, and talking to officials, or even just making buzz about potential problems is a bad, bad idea. Lawmakers can't ban things they don't know they can ban... unless you give them an idea. Same thing with public reaction. People don't get outraged if they don't know why they should be. In the end it came to that exact outcome, and drones are now in the process of being legislated to the ground, and effectively becoming unflyable by regular people without few kilograms of permits, and licenses. He wanted to pride DJI on how government compliant, and safe his drones are, but instead just got them banned around every major city. |