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The US courts have consistently held that it is perfectly legal to do anything to your privated owned things that are not public. Your house example is wrong,
by stale2002 6y ago
The US courts have consistently held that it is perfectly legal to do anything to your privated owned things that are not public.
Your house example is wrong, because that has public viewing concerns on a plot of land.
And your car example is incorrect. I could make any changes at all to a car, that is not put on public roads.
That has nothing to do with the manufacturer putting restrictions on your car.
- yazaddaruvala 6y agoiPhones are put on “public” internet and therefore is restricted for the safety of the user and the safety of society. If you want to cherry pick arguments we can do this all day. The reality is Apple is just doing what every manufacturer has done for millennia!
- stale2002 6y ago> The reality is Apple is just doing what every manufacturer has done for millennia! Certain actions are illegal if a company has too much market power. Anti trust law does not require a literal, singular monopoly, in order for some anti-competitive behaviors to be illegal. Instead, Apple has ~50% of the market share in the US, and that is within the realm where certain actions become illegal, according to anti-trust law.
- MichaelZuo 6y agoThis is false, modern cars contain equipment capable of transmitting EM waves and thus regulated by the FCC and equivalent agencies in most other countries. These regulations apply even on private property. You can not arbitrarily change that legally. The same applies to all private houses, installing in a home a powerful transmitter to broadcast noise is certainly illegal without approval.