Is it possible to let owners use their hardware as they wish, without having large companies control what they deem "safe"?
I'm not the user of my phone, I'm its owner.
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The societal losses of a vast amount of people having no private, uncensored means of communication, which this is leading to, are orders of magnitude greater. The largest cause of early death in the past century was governments murdering their own citizens, and the more power governments have over their citizens, the easier it becomes for this to happen again.
This reeks as a powergrab that restricts my freedom disguised with the classic "for the greater good". Same as the new UK age verification laws
That debate was had already and was lost. Phone scammers get blocked by telcos all the time.
I'm allowed to build a wacky unsafe DIY car and drive it around my own property without getting permission from the government. In many scenarios I don't even need a driver's license.
Bringing the analogy back around, maybe one could argue that if I let my phone get hacked such that it becomes part of a botnet or something then it is a danger to other people, but that's not the typical example. Usually these policies claim to be about protecting me from myself while using a device I own.
By the way, if you do go down the route of building your own phone, pedophiles, drug dealers, and terrorists will use it, and you're now on the hook to do something about it.
...Back to square one.
Same as the privacy invading tech/E2EE for "national security/protecting children online". You think banning VPN or E2EE apps is going to stop bad actors?
NO! As always it effects normal users for control/power or money.
How many times does this same thing get played over and over again? It's the same script you know?
We could ban the internet completely and minors wouldn't be any safer.
...but not in others. Which is why those who still have the freedom will continue fighting for it.
What I am saying is that I have not been stopped from taking calls from unknown numbers just because the call might be a scam. Likewise I don't wanna be stopped from installing an apk just because it might be a scam.
There were unofficial statements made by third party android news sites that Catalan police claimed that "Every time we see a Google Pixel, we think it could be a drug dealer"... which, while obviously wrong on its own, is completely different than claiming they are actually arresting people on suspicion of drug dealing merely by using GrapheneOS.
Please stop spreading misinformation.