😂 You think lawmakers don't have advisors? Are you aware how many lawyers are lawmakers? Did you know one of the skills of a lawyer is researching things? Why do you think they bring professionals in the field to address Congress on these matters? What do you think that is? that's them not just relying on their own theories, huh?

Facist communist cointel ops in place acting as if they're doing something for the good of the person instead working for the people behind enslavement and debt slavery.

@@dangerous8333 You assume these noble lawmakers don't have an agenda and a narrative to push...for which they may find an advisor to support their arguments in Congress. Much more money flowing through those halls than integrity.

Lobbyists that are partially funded by Skydio, screw that company.

@@dangerous8333 @skasztan I wish I had the empty space in my head like our friend @dangerous8333 to add a "trust the government. They've NEVER been wrong" room. Said no one ever in the history of mankind. Psh..... Those "professionals" you reference, you wouldn't be including the same "professionals" that all signed a document that said the Hunter Biden "laptop from hell" was Russian misinformation, or the same "professionals" that said COVID wasn't made in a Chinese lab, surely you don't mean the same "professionals" that have gaslit the American People for the last 3 years about having a corpse for a President, right?! My favorite are the "professional" actors that fly all over the world in their private jets and try to convince the world that WE have to give up our resources. I also love when "professional" actors go in front of Congress and profess to be "professionals" that have real experience in whatever field that their latest movie was based on. Professional just means they get paid. It doesn't mean they know wtf they're talking about. Yes. How blissful it must be to be this empty headed.

That seems to be the elephant in the room. No one seems to know if it will be a ban on the purchase of new drones and/or ground existing drones. If the ground existing drones, will they do via a firmware update or just tell us not to fly them? I have a Mavic Pro and a Phantom 4 and I use them commercially. I’m looking for a new cinematic FPV and my first choice was the Avata 2. With this ban muddying the water, I’m wondering if I’ll be better off buying into the Walksnail HD infrastructure even though the Avata is a better fit for my needs.

It can eventually yes ground those same frequency's once approved so get ur facts in full

How would this affect goggles with digital air units? Also, ban is stupid.

Amen!!! Big brother has been in our pockets for years lol

They could put backdoors in all our devices, hell they probably already do yet drives are worse?

@@CnRSPACE our federal government has access to everybody’s cell phones don’t kid yourself. That whole episode a few years back about the fbi wanting access to some persons phone and Apple refused was a total facade.

American politicians have allowed China to by into US land. Same here in Australia. Why isn't our media on their back about this issue?

Do you read other comments? Follow other channels discussing this topic? This has been discussed for months now, and everything you said has been said 10000 times already. It's also been explained how drones are different. It's also been explained the difference between an American company making things in China, and a Chinese company making things in China. Lastly, this goes far beyond data collection. They're just not telling you the other things. I'm not a DJI hater, I just bought the A2 even knowing before about the ban, but there is nuance to this argument.

And once they're done with their term, they will "quit politics" and join that firms company as an executive or member of the board aka "the revolving door". Tale as old as time.

“Legal” just like all the ham licenses we have while flying 😂. We will all be fine. Everybody is tripping

​@@scottycameraI actually have a ham license. Had it decades before I got into drones.

@@ZolonsShopOfWonderZ thats cool but your the 1 percent and that's my main point here. Nice to have def, but flying drones we never will get asked that by cops.

@@scottycamera I have been asked before. The problem is, if/when these laws start, it will give karens and police reasons to harass us more.

Unless the government gives me a refund, good luck!

Bills out of the House rarely look the same once the Senate is done with them.

The problem here is Skydio doesn't even have a consumer product any more, so they're going after DJI's pro market with a side effect of taking away DJI drones from the whole rest of the consumer market they don't even serve. Fuck em.

It's spelled "bribing"

We say, hooray capitalism!

Free market lol

😂 Half million? That's it? what do you think that's going to achieve? DJI is giving millions to the Democrats to stop this. 👍🏼

Please, I would love to hear who you think is out spending DJI in lobbying. List one American drone company that could even compete. People talking about Skydio giving half a million, like that means anything. When DJI is literally stuffing millions of dollars into "mostly" Democrat pockets, as we speak.

DJI owns the consumer drone market. No-one, and I repeat, no-one can out-spend it lobbying. However, there's one primary factor that is preventing it from successfully lobbying: it is not an American company. Both sides of the political fence would rather not be caught "sleeping with the enemy" no matter the monetary benefit. See, the US always needs an external enemy, or it will fight with itself (as is happening now). China is simply the Soviet Union of today.

no, it doesn't.

@@dangerous8333 How doesn't it? If it's a tarriff on all chinese drones, then it affects components. Today it's DJI, tomorrow it could be Hobbywing.

@@MrDiMaggio5 I hope those American drone companies lobbying for the DJI ban use zero Chinese parts too. Otherwise the First Responders act will put a massive tariff on every drone part made on China... you know that place practically every drone part is made in.

Very Well Said !!!😮

China does not make the chips used in smartphones. They do now however have a smartphone where they make the chip that goes in side...but I hear it is crap and the Chinese don't even want them xD.

Back in the 70s Russia was buying up so much export restricted IC chips from the US that the US worked with Texas Instruments and put spyware in the silicon on many IC chips. Russians never realized it for a number of years and stopped buying them when they found out LOL.

So yes, eventually China will have better capability to pull off something...may have now. Yes, any electronics assembled in China is a security threat. All it takes is for someone to change the firmware that goes into the product. Disgruntled employees have already done this a number of times in the US and elsewhere LOL

"How can you get rid of something without replacing it with something equal performance?" Imagine the Gov actually caring about that. DJI was used by everyone because it did things no other company could. I worked for an industrial Robotocs company from 2014 - 2023 and even we used DJI after spending endless amounts trying to develop our own systems.

What Chinese company with connections to the communist Chinese government make the most used RC plane in the world that millions of people own, with no other competition? Exactly, none. Also, stop thinking this is only about data collection.

Please tell me the politicians that are neither idiots nor criminals, the list is getting pretty short lately. If you include not yet convicted criminals I bet it's pretty much 100 percent.

@@r9999t Yep, like I said elections have consequences. We get what we pay for.

Bingo. Someone who's awake. Sadly most of my comments are never seen by people.

Historically, tyrant is a term coined by the ancient Greek aristocracy to describe populist rulers that favored debt forgiveness for the people over the objections of the wealthy.

😂 you all sound like children. They ban one communist drone and all the sudden it's the end of America for you. You guys sound ridiculous, and I'm really enjoying it.

rightfully so.

Same here , I have caddx but want the 03 as well

They'll be bullying 'allies' to get them to stop buying DJI soon enough.

right, and it's illegal to use certain features on a Baofeng. So what is your point?

@@dangerous8333 There is thousands of them in the US without Part 15 certification. Tell me you're a ham without telling me you're a ham.

@@dangerous8333 at this point "illegal" just means "good features"

It's different as in many of those companies "building centers" themselves were actually very very close to military installations along with their antennas were very oddly close to a lot of major military installations. If you're flying dji over a military base thats jail time... which is perfectly fine but restricting dji over a "few" bad apples is as close as to going against even the 2nd Amendment lol

@@jocsanayala3268 I mean dji has been blacklisted from Americans investing in them since 2021 because of their roll in human rights abuses. It's not like this is some random company either

Back in the 70s Russia was buying up so much export restricted IC chips from the US that the US worked with Texas Instruments and put spyware in the silicon on many IC chips. Russians never realized it for a number of years and stopped buying them when they found out LOL.

That explains why my lungs hurt cutting and sanding a PCB with a grinder... 😮‍💨

@@WR3ND it might. I don’t know that is is as bad as asbestos, but apparently it requires some expensive PPE and insurance/workman’s comp is off the charts. So now we have the FAA, FCC, EPA, and OSHA all working to stamp out the drone hobby because they are scared. It’s not about air traffic safety. That’s obvious now.

It's now why Teslas are banned in many parts of China.

Disagree. GoPro tried. Hard. DJI used immoral business practices to run them out of the market. 3D Robotics made the Solo - an incredible drone that DJI went and copied all of its features and undercut the price until they ran them out of the market also. It’s almost impossible to compete with a Chinese private company who is supported by the CCP who manufacture everything in China.

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hear hear

LOL - ok

Yeah that's a very good comparison you made. China has banned Tesla cars because they can create a street view map for the Tesla corporation wherever they drive. China is concerned enough about the US mapping some of their infrastructure, so... Isn't it the better part of caution that our lawmakers take similar steps about the Chinese equivalent with a much better view?

Agreed and well said

If there is ever a war with another knew clear power, drones and cell phones made in China will be the least of your worries.

One question I'm pretty sure they never asked "where do you get your components"?

@user-zc1hp2qn4f customs agents are gonna ask that very question of the manufacturer. They plan on banning all components, motors, esc's, transmitters and receivers. Not just from dji, anything made in china will be taxed out of existence in the usa.

Well well well ! A Smart Person here !

@@jeremyboyce1537 no no.... Definitely not the smart guy in the room. Not at all. I just sit back, pay attention to the most random shit on the internet and put on my critical thinking cap.

@@BIGWIGGLE223 That's Quite Fair , I Hope You Were Putting-On Your Critical Thinking Cap A Long Long Time Before Now Though Cause Almost Everything In All Our Homes and Our Security Stuff , Cell Phones and The Whole Lot , Really Needs A Critical Thinking Cap !!!! You Agree ? Or this is only about DJI Drones ???

@@BIGWIGGLE223, before you Rant about me liking DJI or believing that I am some kind of Fan Boy , just let me tell you now , Go On Any Of The Forums Or Comment Sections Of Any Drone Channel or Ask Anyone About The Cussing That DJI Gets From Me ! This Guy Don't Really Like or Care About Them But They Make A Really Good Product , That's All I Have To Say !!!! Make Your Comment Now ???

@@jeremyboyce1537 I agree with you there. They make an amazing product. There's no dispute about that, but I'm not willing to sacrifice national security for a foreign nation that has been nothing but adversarial when that same equipment could be made right here at home without the risks. It'll cost more, but I'm willing to pay the difference to have peace of mind that China isn't using the data that their product collects and analyzes on our nation and it's People. That's all. Never said they didn't make the most amazing tech available.

Newsflash, it's not about data collect! That's just what they're telling the general public to get support for it. If you need a clue of what it might be, outside of data collection, watch a freaking Ukraine video.

​​@@dangerous8333news flash, Ukraine is already using DJI drones on the battlefield and China is also an ally of Russia. Has China taken control of all the drones in Ukraine and used it against Ukraine? Why no national security concerns for the Ukrainians?

Yeah, it has definitely nothing to do with Chinese making crap products, or the fact they steal intellectual property and use slave labor to build it. Nooooo, couldn't be that. The only thing they seem to get right is electronics. So drones, 3-D printers, phones. by the way, the other phone companies couldn't compete because they were undercut by slave labor. That's about it. I'm an engineer and tradesmen. I have every type of tool that you can think of, and machinery. I also collect firearms and air rifles and none of those are Chinese either. in fact, I do a lot and can't think of another Chinese company with connections to the Chinese government that I purchase anything from. I don't know why you guys seem to think just because they make decent electronics that they can make anything good. in some cases, even their electronics are inferior, they're just cheaper, and people love cheap. Heard of Daewoo cars? Garbage, and no longer sold in the United States for good reason.

@@dangerous8333 The device you posted this on was made in China.And Daewoo is Korean.

It's only tax payer money, why would they care how much it costs?

Its going to happen.

I thought this initially, too, but it seems like it's ready to pass. I have held off on the dji hardware for fpv (i have the air3 and lovd it) and went walksnail for my fpv digital. Everyone here who wants to keep dji around needs to reach out to their local senators.

@@daRealGamer22 i'm sure that will make a big difference.

You are seriously underestimating how much the US government does not give a single d*mn about their people.

If you think for one second that the fools in Congress care, you would be wrong.

Good luck, the rest of the components needed like flight controller and motors are mostly made in China and will be banned as well.

I’ve even been hearing talk about how the CCP is being run or at least partially by aliens. Think about it, why would they spy on their OWN CITIZENS? And now us? Fishy stuff going on here! All I know is that this sounds like a full interplanetary invasion to me and China was just first in line. Get those DJI products out of here man!

Google, Meta (Facebook) , Apple and tesla have been collecting all our data and doing surveillance. Google maps , street view or tesla car cams. Don't tell people DJI is bad. Pick on US tec companies too, if you to come with these arguments. Hope you're not using any of the above services, if you're sacred. Oh you're on YT already. Haha

There is a belief, but there is no evidence. So we're just responding to the possibility of what might happen. And that's different than responding to something that is happening.

@@JoshuaBardwell Well put.

The loss of power? An empire, on average, only lasts around 250 years. The US is following all the steps of every once great empire. We're going to collapse, it's just a matter of time now. If security was truly a concern we wouldn't let them fly _weather_ balloons across the country.

You think DJI is overpriced, wait until the ban goes through.

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Sour Grapes

What does ukraine have to do with DJI being banned in the US? Are you trying to say people could use them in a dangerous manner as weapons? I get the concern but they could do that with any other brand drone. It has to do with the US drone companies lobbying to get rid of the competition.

@@daRealGamer22 He must think only drones made in China can be used in warfare.

You're right; phones are much, much more of a threat.

What's happening in Ukraine or should I say we're told is happening in Ukraine (not that I believe them) is an excuse to push their pre planned agenda.

A new world disorder is afoot.