I see it as Royal Mail or Canada Post way before tech was draining the populace of money and resources. Anyone along the line could open your letter or lose it, but it rarely happened. People were more serious then, and honour and pride of workmanship existed. The default nowadays is “how can we spy on them and take more of their hard-earned cash”.
explains a lot about the willingness of certain oligarchs to restrict what we can install on our own fucking gizmos.
That’s always been a red line for me. If we lose that, we are at the mercy of the gizmos true owner. Maybe the true owner is benevolant. Or maybe they aren’t. Either way! A golden cage is still a cage!
My friends don’t feel that way. TBH I only do b/c my pa is an old mainframe guy and after personal computing arose he had C64’s and stuff. Those oldschool home computers answered to the human at the kb. I picked up his values. Digital gizmos should answer to me, not to BigTechCo. B/c BigTechCo can be pressured. It can change ownership and policies overnight. Then everyone loses their computing freedom at once.
Please don’t be silly Canada! I don’t want to lose Signal, it took a lot of effort to get my family and friends to migrate from Zuckerberg owned messenger services.
Ugh saaame
Trying to outlaw math is “underpants on the outside” stupid.
But also doable and works as an excuse for all kinds of enforcement.
