After the news about VPN apps removed from the App Store in Russia, the writing was on the wall: The current tech companies have become an enforcement agency of the state they operate in.
I'm pretty happy with Apple's walled garden but IMHO the risk is too high to run the society on infrastructure that can be used to fully control the communications and individual ability of people on press of a button.
I fully expect the US to learn their lesson after the US elections this year, either pro-Trump or the anti-Trump folks will learn their lesson the hard way.
Whenever there's the technical ability, someone will want to use it. That's also why all the governments want to listen to our conversations and access our data, they are also always well intentioned(in their mind the solution to stop the bad people is just a click away, how can you deny this?). The problem is of course, either someone will get corrupted and use this to do something horrible(tech designed to save the children will be used to target people) or people will disagree on what's what's the right thing to do and the tech will be used to destroy them(decisions on something will be met with protests and the tech will be used to silence/cancel/catch/demoralize/block communication etc).
I'm afraid the world will go through a techno-fascism stage.
I'm pretty happy with Apple's walled garden but IMHO the risk is too high to run the society on infrastructure that can be used to fully control the communications and individual ability of people on press of a button.
I fully expect the US to learn their lesson after the US elections this year, either pro-Trump or the anti-Trump folks will learn their lesson the hard way.
Whenever there's the technical ability, someone will want to use it. That's also why all the governments want to listen to our conversations and access our data, they are also always well intentioned(in their mind the solution to stop the bad people is just a click away, how can you deny this?). The problem is of course, either someone will get corrupted and use this to do something horrible(tech designed to save the children will be used to target people) or people will disagree on what's what's the right thing to do and the tech will be used to destroy them(decisions on something will be met with protests and the tech will be used to silence/cancel/catch/demoralize/block communication etc).
I'm afraid the world will go through a techno-fascism stage.