| Considering I'm not talking about you personally, nor do I know what things you personally have, that sort of dismissal is pretty pointless. > Still the devices I currently own are the best devices I ever had. "Own" - that's the key word here where the contention is. If the entity you bought this thing from still retains control over your thing, that's a rental. > And the services I subscribe to are incredible services that never even existed before. Considering you're not naming said "incredible services", it's irrelevant to dispute. > Free markets are not always providing perfect solutions, but I am absolutely sure government intervention could only worsen the situation, never improve it. Absolutely sure? That sounds extremely over-simplistic to reduce every possible legislation and governance down to "always sure government intervention worsens the situation". And part of my recommendations are not needing new laws, but maintaining product truth-in-advertising in the face of remote access. And frankly, if I put in remote control, sold the machine, and then remotely destroyed it, I'd be brought in for felony hacking charges. But really, the level of discourse of "guvernment baaaadddd" is damned distressing, and unfortunately a result of Reagan's very successful campaign to say that, defund public facing gov orgs, and then point at lack of performance for underfunded orgs, thus doing another round of underfunding. |