Comment by BrenBarn
20 days ago
Conditioning such rights on the device being "owned outright" will just push the same bad actors to rent you the phones instead of buying them, the same as they did with software licenses. The only way to really fix it is to break up the wealth and power of individuals and corporations based on their total effective power, regardless of the source from which that power is derived.
>The only way to really fix it is to break up the wealth and power of individuals and corporations based on their total effective power
That simply transfers the power to the one doing the breakup, which in most cases, are the Governments, which are notoriously known to invade user's privacy under the guise of protection of children or whatever.
Corporations are also notorious for doing that, except with governments you can vote them out.