[jjav]

> it’s not criminal to remove functionality from a previously-sold device

I'm sure it's not criminal, given today's laws.

Think about that statement though. It absolutely should, morally, be criminal to take away something that was sold as functioning.

Imagine in the 80s that VCR manufacturers sent people to your home at night to open your VCR and cut some traces so it could play but no longer record. Would be an outrage. Also, fortunately, was in practice impossible.

Just because today devices are built to enable damaging functionality from afar doesn't means it is suddenly ok.

[judge2020]

I never said it was OK. The parent specifically wondered if some law prohibited this practice (which there isn't, given Google's legal team surely has all their bases covered).