apple iphone and China/ccp are more deeply linked than people realize. The tooling and engineers, Shanghai tech sector.

I agree; the best option is to ditch Android … those who can do it. Some Banking apps, public transport ticket apps, and post/mail-delivery apps seem to be a hard requirement for people in real live though. Which leads to the question: But what about people who can not ditch their phones and can not afford multiple devices (this decade)? Maybe laws that introduce a hard requirement that everything should work through a (open source) web-browser can help, but then what about “offline” use cases?

It feels like we are building our own digital prison in real time.

for real? Mentioning the wrong (key-) word gets you cancelled like this?