For the record, I am mainly interested in seeing the major US retailers moving to stop selling these devices, period. That seems to be happening, at least on the ones that are being called out. But the only reason that's happening now is because more people (present company included) are starting to make a lot more noise about it.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ije2xwkpyayz53imvbibvuqf/post/3marmcx23cc2f

I'll add that pro-piracy advocates are militant in their observation that technology is not inherently this or that, that it's all just how the technology is used. The subtext is, okay, maybe these things are designed w/ zero security and are a major security liability, but hey you can still flash them with whatever you want and run your own stock firmware or hardware, etc. No reason to distrust these devices at a more fundamental level, even though every single point of evidence about their design, manufacture and sale points to the opposite conclusion being the correct one.

Also, the people saying the loudest that this is a nothingburger are the same people who think flashing firmware and running custom ROMs is a thing they want to do. Most people who buy these devices a) have no clue what a liability they are and b) wouldn't begin to know how to do that, or that they might need to. To me, it's a form of class snobbery.