71
The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones—and It’s So Much Worse Than We Thought
(www.popularmechanics.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
71 points (85.9% liked)
Technology
79576 readers
4257 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This is outdated, the Americans did a 180 because it was not economically viable:
US drops plan to restrict Chinese-made drones; Chinese expert says economic realities behind the change (Jan 10 2026)
Classic TACO, eh
Since when is the US concerned about "economic realities"?
Since they can't get parts as they are banned.
At least some form of reality check and accepting reality happened.