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> a lack of giving a rat's ass to begin with. Agreed... > your vote and influence are already bought and paid for? Overly cynical. The standard whipping boy
by Domenic_S 11y ago
> a lack of giving a rat's ass to begin with.
Agreed...
> your vote and influence are already bought and paid for?
Overly cynical. The standard whipping boy for 'buying politicians' is Big Business, and Apple certainly qualifies as that. In fact, this is an affront to essentially every big business in the world with IP to protect.
- undersuit 11y agoAnd all of those contractors that the NSA and the FBI work with, they are just too poor to even think about lobbying for more work in the shadow of Apple's influence. /s Big business is on both sides of this conflict.
- gr3yh47 11y ago>In fact, this is an affront to essentially every big business in the world with IP to protect. it really isn't, because many of the biggest business want a greater degree of population control, and having access to all of every individuals info is a means to that end.
- oldmanjay 11y agoIt seems a bit of a reach to say that government is demanding the tools to build a surveillance state because of unnamed "big business" wanting population control. That seems to only happen in bad sci-fi and Internet comments.