This is defeatist and wrong. Technology can be used to cross political barriers and solve issues, that's what the government intends to stop. They like the App

This is defeatist and wrong. Technology can be used to cross political barriers and solve issues, that's what the government intends to stop. They like the App Store and Google Play store, because if dissenting apps pop up they only have 2 companies to call to get it removed[0]. They like people perceiving an iMessage/RCS duopoly because that's only 2 secure channels to backdoor[1]. Threatening you with jail-time is all they can do for escaping their ire, but that's an unjust and disproportionate response from any state-level actor. The "average consumer" has been joking about their 'FBI guy' and freaking them out with weird porn or spurious Amazon carts for a decade now. We've hit the peaks of disillusionment, we've started down the road of exploitation and most of us are starting to worry that this trend of technological limitation is specifically intended to make us politically weak. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/17/navalny-google-apple-app-russia/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/17/navalny-g... [1] https://apnews.com/article/canada-us-india-sikh-activist-killing-intelligence-c475ac129e09e5f1c9ebf68eaaf247ab https://apnews.com/article/canada-us-india-sikh-activist-kil...