That argument boils down to "if there's something you dislike about society, feel free to live a hermit life in the woods instead". That's not an argument, that

That argument boils down to "if there's something you dislike about society, feel free to live a hermit life in the woods instead". That's not an argument, that's an ultimatum. In order to receive my salary, pay taxes, fulfill children's schooling, and a myriad of other things there are plenty of proprietary software involved that requries a full hardware attestation to prove that the no part of the software stack is under user control. It is completely unfounded to call this FUD. It is a fact of modern life. I do condone it because there are many obvious economic and political problems with it already, and could easily see how it could get much worse before it gets better. So far I have been able to isolate these "0wned" devices from the rest of my digital life, but that rest is getting increasinly marginalized.