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You wrote this under an article which literally blames the government and literally opens with the following description of ICE "... masked snatch-squads who il
by troupo 1y ago
You wrote this under an article which literally blames the government and literally opens with the following description of ICE "... masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America's cities, capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi"
- abtinf 1y agoI read the article before I posted. It’s essentially 1% blaming the government and 99% blaming the companies for not having backbone and for pursuing profit.
- actionfromafar 1y agoBut who is the intended audience? Maybe the author hasn't given up on persuading Tim Cook. I don't think there's much chance, but maybe there's a small chance. If the article was instead giving a pitch to the government, there'd be 0% chance.
- troupo 1y agoYou can't have an article that is 100% one content and at the same time 100% the other content. It's an article criticizing Apple for caving in to dictatorial demands, and for other failures. It's not an article on government failures. And it's not an article that claims that government needs more guns as you claim that every article is.
- bigyabai 1y agoWe, the people, cannot regulate NSA activities we never knew about. We couldn't protest Apple and Google's warrantless Push Notification system until Wyden blew the whistle on it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-... You cannot ever expect any company to have a backbone, but you also can't expect the government to be perfectly honest. The real culprit is our software habits, and companies are the main driver in neutering your software freedom.