Comment by rz2k

This is a very well-written post. Ever since this program has been announced I have struggled with talking about the implications succinctly.

Online, I never know if an interlocutor is even arguing in good faith, but even in person it's difficult to balance talking about all the ways that the claimed safeguards are meaningless, how the benefits don't really make sense, how this is markedly different from other infringements on privacy with the need to be concise and explain that the real problems aren't just theoretical because similar invasions of privacy are killing actual people around the world already.

Anyway, I think the only practical way that this could resolve well, is if Apple saw a precipitous decline in its iCloud brand, then it could be argued that they had to abandon this plan for purely business reasons. A serious movement to abandon Apple services ($17.5B revenue in 2021 q3), might empower the people within Apple who opposed this reckless plan from the beginning.