if i remember correctly the printing press was banned for a long time in turkey because they believed that would cause death to hand calligraphy workers. that m

if i remember correctly the printing press was banned for a long time in turkey because they believed that would cause death to hand calligraphy workers. that might've been a good argument but the idea was more insidious. people would get fast access to knowledge and the government control would get less and less to what they could control. the same could've been said about telegraph or telephone when they first came out. telephone has been online for around 100 years or 150? it is centralized, every country IMO has wiretapping laws for law enforcement agencies but has that stopped criminals from using the tech? email must've felt the same, IM too. why should centralization be the panacea for everything? tomorrow android will be used by criminals to build their own crimeOS that is built on android><lineageOS and it is the single biggest criminal sindicate doing very nasty stuff. should android and lineage devs be concerned if a section of their users use it to build their own crimeOS that is made to evade police? more importantly, how are THEY responsible? one can argue, "well they should be responsible for their software if it falls into the wrong hands so they should build some sort of protection or backdoor for genuine law enforcement agencies".... would'nt this argument apply to knife makers too? what will they do? make you use the sharp edge in kitchen only by using NFC tags on the chopping board?