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Most Americans back FBI over Apple in iPhone unlocking fight
- im_down_w_otp 11y agoThat's because about 0.1% of Americans have anything remotely resembling the necessary context and expertise to even have a vaguely useful opinion or position on this issue. When I'm facing a particularly vexing convergence problem for distributed data conflicts there are many, many very good reasons why I don't poll people in a random bar or cafe for what I should do. But the most important reason is because... they would absolutely, definitely give me terrible advice. The good news for the government in this case though is that apparently in the absence useful context and expertise, and even when related to a company with an extremely favorable brand, the default position for the American people is to trend toward authoritarian oversight. That's a big social-psychological win for the government.