Right, so now the same people who have for decades been running all those government programs into the ground should get control over our pocket computers as we

Right, so now the same people who have for decades been running all those government programs into the ground should get control over our pocket computers as well? No and no and no thanks either, just simply no. I am far better at controlling the thing than whatever the commissars at the state would be able to do. The real problem as said is advertising and all the 'social' (but really the opposite) guff around it so you won't find any of that on my devices. No Google, No MF-book, no nothin'. I run my own services on the server-under-the-stairs which are used by my family - daughters included - and am not waiting for the 'democratically governed' alternative which no doubt will insist on propagansiding whatever trendy nonsense is coming out of the social studies academies at the moment and will block the use of private servers 'to protect the vulnerable' or some such nonsense. Pocket computers - which these devices are - are useful and handy devices, just make sure not to pollute them with advertising and social nonsense and keep away from those data-hungry megacorpps and similar startup wannabees.