Your 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

Your 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?