The connection is plausible (if thin, but then again that’s always—thankfully—the case with x-risk).
Unfortunately, the majority of cellphone manufacturing happens in precisely the kind of country that (a) would not be enthusiastic about a market-inefficient scheme aimed at promoting freedom of information, and (b) possesses the politico-commercial clout to easily repel any but the largest outside pressuring in such sense.
The connection is plausible (if thin, but then again that’s always—thankfully—the case with x-risk).
Unfortunately, the majority of cellphone manufacturing happens in precisely the kind of country that (a) would not be enthusiastic about a market-inefficient scheme aimed at promoting freedom of information, and (b) possesses the politico-commercial clout to easily repel any but the largest outside pressuring in such sense.