Comment by djd7duehrj
4 years ago
This argument falls on it's head when confronted by reality. Either you have a trustworthy government already that will respect your rights in a slow-rolling fashion that shifts as the dialogue within the courts evolves or you already have a government that doesn't care about you and your laws/desires at all and which will do what it wants anyway. Unless you're in the ladder there's no reason to be so hostile to empowering technologies, especially when they're being used to fight some of the most heinous types of crime.
Power corrupts.
The government in your country most likely could already oppress you if it wanted to.
Yes, it probably could. And Apple users are helping them to normalize constant surveillance of private information. This is a read permission on the content of you phone.
There is literature about how obedience enables totalitarianism. Tons of it. Should be part of any schools curriculum in my opinion.