The Internet of Things isn't benign.
1. Manufacturers aren't satisfied with making & selling just cars & appliances anymore.
It's an additional revenue stream from selling your privacy to 3rd parties, foreign & domestic.
2. It uses up internet & cellular bandwidth & electricity at a prodigious rate. Brownouts & blackouts get more frequent.
It's driving up utility rates everywhere.
That artificially inflated demand is misused as justification to thwart a fossil fuel...
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