Comment by hungryforcodes

Why do they DESERVE to be so? Despite what you say there was and is no mechanism to really change or affect the course of these affairs.

Apple? How? Your other option is Android, who do you choose when they start to do it?

Or when governments decide to mandate that ALL phones need to legally have "scanning all the files on it and report them back to the police database" mechanisms?

The EU? Particularly how? An organization that has been deliberately structured to supersede the legitimacy of nation states and export it's power to all of it's members at the whim -- sometimes it seems -- of some aging out of touch bureaucrats.

I'm not even a #brexiter, btw.

Should Scotland become an independent nation? There was a public debate and people had opinions -- and there were mechanisms in place to act on and make a change, as an example.

There has been no public debate on this in a national sense (anywhere), and also no mechanisms by which people could decide to change it. I'm not sure people deserve it.