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Slippery slope arguments are lame when they start to go like this. Like, I get you. By allowing X which might actually be OK, we might allow X+1 to happen and
by harryh 11y ago
Slippery slope arguments are lame when they start to go like this.
Like, I get you. By allowing X which might actually be OK, we might allow X+1 to happen and that wouldn't be OK. So we must oppose X as a practical matter.
I get the practicality of that.
But when you start opposing X as a matter of principle rather than simply as a matter of practicality that's when you've gone off the rails.
- ubernostrum 11y agoWell, for one thing it's not even a slippery slope. They want to unlock his work-issued phone, not his personal phone, and the FBI admits they have, and other law-enforcement agencies admit they have, an almighty queue of other things they'd like to get force-unlocked if they can only get precedent claiming that companies do indeed have to circumvent their own products on demand.