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If you want a unlocked phone, then buy one. Asking for more restrictions makes you _less_ free, and costs more. What you are suggesting is to take money from ot
by jakeogh 11y ago
If you want a unlocked phone, then buy one. Asking for more restrictions makes you _less_ free, and costs more. What you are suggesting is to take money from others so you can be ignorant about what electronics you are buying.
"As devices become our primary source of information, the devices become more important. More powerful and potentially more dangerous."
Ya, hence governments want power over them. How's that kill switch working for ya? Oh, no InternetID? Sorry, you need that to surf since the Safe Internet Act of 2021, and no, we can't sell you a phone without the Safe Internet Chip, because rules.
- daveloyall 11y agoYour comment has been downvoted, I guess. I don't see why. I think the is important so I'm willing to walk/think through your argument. Of course! :) That's discourse. The kill switch and blackbox chips are exactly the sort of thing I want to avoid. I'm not sure how we'd get there from the rule I want. I guess the rule I want is "No machine shall disobey its owner". And device manufactures could be punished if they sell devices that are found to disobey their owners. Seems to me that would address the fritz chip, and the kill switch, etc. Related: are all rules inherently bad? Or do we just have a lot of bad ones and no reason to think new ones would be better?
- jakeogh 11y agoI appreciate that. I prob lost a few points on snark. To your question, if you ask for people to make rules for you, don't be surprised when they make rules you don't like. The vast majority of the time, power acts to increase it's influence.