Security precludes freedom. The trend from just about anyone being able to build their own home a half century ago to not being able to even make your own batte

Security precludes freedom. The trend from just about anyone being able to build their own home a half century ago to not being able to even make your own battery pack just shows the trend away from the freedom to experiment. The right to repair died once magic computers came into the world. Before that trying to tell anyone their mechanical / electrical systems were undocumented proprietary and warranty breaking if you tried to repair them would have caused a riot. But since computers were sufficiently magical that a critical enough mass of people wrote off trying to understand them, the industry and all resulting industries undermined the right to actually own anything related to them.