Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But it's worse than that. When a tech company designs a device for remote, ...
But it's worse than that. When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they *invite* both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remote, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded *inevitably* results in the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so.
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