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I'm on the fence here, I sort of like the premise that looters don't get their booty. I do agree though I don't like the idea that a corporation can remotely di

I'm on the fence here, I sort of like the premise that looters don't get their booty. I do agree though I don't like the idea that a corporation can remotely disable a piece of hardware I bought.

imglorp 5y ago
Really? How about this? Your social media $POST critical of $PARTY is incompatible with Samsung's vision of community. We have therefore disabled your $PHONE, $WATCH, $TV, $DISHWASHER, and $PC. Contact serv.manager@samsung.com or click here for more information" Does that possibility change your position?
- gruez 5y ago
  But if you reached that level of tyranny, shouldn't you be more worried about the state sending Men With Guns to your residence, or blocking you from receiving government services (eg. welfare, healthcare, renewing drivers license)? Not being able to netflix and chill seems like the least of your worries.
  - mdp2021 5y ago
    You may have not considered that appliances allowing profiling are part of the system that may enable the above. Which, also, may not be worse: it may be less absurd under some perspective. Edit: by the way: if you used your handeld and general purpose computers as your extension, which really should be factual, your dismissal would become the least justifiable statement. "Yes, I had an hyppocampus (amygdala etc.) but I probably did not need it that much." Little has more priority than your full ownership of your extensions.
    - gruez 5y ago
      > You may have not considered that appliances allowing profiling are part of the system that may enable the above. Profiling/anti-theft seems orthogonal here. You can have profiling without anti-theft (eg. facebook/google), and you can have anti-theft without profiling (eg. lojack).
- rad_gruchalski 5y ago
  Since when is this going on?
mminer237 5y ago
They have the ability to, but that doesn't make it legal. Samsung has the ability to hire mercenaries to go to your home and forcibly take your TV, and that's beyond your control too. But both are illegal. You can never ensure that nobody will ever have the ability to do bad things to you, but as long as it's a rectifiable matter and you're protected by the law, we often have to rely on those legal protections.

I'm on the fence here, I sort of like the premise that looters don't get their booty. I do agree though I don't like the idea that a corporation can remotely disable a piece of hardware I bought.

imglorp 5y ago

Really? How about this? Your social media $POST critical of $PARTY is incompatible with Samsung's vision of community. We have therefore disabled your $PHONE, $WATCH, $TV, $DISHWASHER, and $PC. Contact serv.manager@samsung.com or click here for more information" Does that possibility change your position?

gruez 5y ago
But if you reached that level of tyranny, shouldn't you be more worried about the state sending Men With Guns to your residence, or blocking you from receiving government services (eg. welfare, healthcare, renewing drivers license)? Not being able to netflix and chill seems like the least of your worries.
- mdp2021 5y ago
  You may have not considered that appliances allowing profiling are part of the system that may enable the above. Which, also, may not be worse: it may be less absurd under some perspective. Edit: by the way: if you used your handeld and general purpose computers as your extension, which really should be factual, your dismissal would become the least justifiable statement. "Yes, I had an hyppocampus (amygdala etc.) but I probably did not need it that much." Little has more priority than your full ownership of your extensions.
  - gruez 5y ago
    > You may have not considered that appliances allowing profiling are part of the system that may enable the above. Profiling/anti-theft seems orthogonal here. You can have profiling without anti-theft (eg. facebook/google), and you can have anti-theft without profiling (eg. lojack).
rad_gruchalski 5y ago
Since when is this going on?

mminer237 5y ago

They have the ability to, but that doesn't make it legal. Samsung has the ability to hire mercenaries to go to your home and forcibly take your TV, and that's beyond your control too. But both are illegal. You can never ensure that nobody will ever have the ability to do bad things to you, but as long as it's a rectifiable matter and you're protected by the law, we often have to rely on those legal protections.