@miss_rodent @AnarchoNinaWrites Frank Herbert (of Dune, Butlerian jihad etc) wrote this back in 1980:
"Before long it will at least be a matter of self-defense for you to have your own computer and be able to use it. You are already being taken advantage of by people with computers. You will not be able to meet that challenge or keep up with other changes unless you acquire a computer yourself.
[...]
"We have said that people with computers are taking advantage of you. There is no doubt that your historic rights of privacy and freedom have been violated by business and government through their use of computers. This is well enough known that it no longer can be questioned.
[...]
"What can you do? Get your own computer. Learn how to use it. [...] If you don't do this, the Bill of Rights is dead and your individual liberties will go the way of the dodo."
https://vtda.org/books/Computing/WithoutMeYoureNothing_FrankHerbert.pdf
So of course, finally, the right to run your own programs on your own computer is under attack. You run authorised software approved by Apple or Google only.
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