[ranger_danger]

Yes they can, but claiming a theoretical future event as fact (or inevitable) I would consider particularly fallacious as it's impossible to prove.

And I think history also shows these claims rarely end up happening the way these alarmists think it will.

Usually when a slope appears, regulation steps in, technology evolves, or the culture shifts, rather than society devolving into some inescapable dystopian hellscape.

[fsflover]

Google has been following the trend of locking down Android for a decade. The slippery slope is a fact here.