Article note: Gross. They were still in production in 2022.
Sounds like someone has managed to hack the bootloader so at least a few of them will be hacker toys instead of ewaste.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.