[horsawlarway]

You're out here explicitly arguing for a read-only world.

A world where every person is regulated to the position of "Consumer" and no one has the ability to create.

A world where you're taught to read, but the second you think of picking up a pencil to write, you're breaking the law.

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No one I know from the software freedom camp is absolving those other companies of violating your privacy or selling your data, but the two issues are orthogonal. You can solve one without having to have the other.

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Want to know something interesting though? Smart phones are the primary computing device in the majority of global households (Not a laptop, not a desktop - a tablet or phone).

No one gives a flying fuck about xbox because xbox is a niche product for rich Americans and Europeans. It's sold a whopping 200 million devices across all generations (original, 360, one) compared to the 2.2 billion iPhones Apple has shipped.