Making it illegal or Trying to make it illegal to own computer aided drawing schematics for products you own
@shortstories Try computers and ecnryption instead. Isn't it already a theoretical possibility that the US can take away your laptop in case you refuse to unlock it?
I am certain that tor, i2p, and similar software will become a crime in our more authoritarian western "democracies" in the next decade.
Let's say you have legal files but you encrypt them in case the government makes them illegal later
Then the government can not prove you have illegal files because they are encryoted but the government can prove you have encryoted files and arrests you for using encryption
@shortstories Yes, what I like about them is that they "do their thing" regardless of what the world does, and they teach us to ask, do we _really_ need this technology? Maybe we can survive without it?
Personally I do not own a smartphone. Yes, I pay higher prices for things both in terms of money and inconvenience, but it is worth it for me.
@shortstories This is very dystopian and very authoritarian. =(
@h4890
The Amish were right not because tevhnology is unethical but because the government will make so much new technology illegal that only Amish will be keeping the law until the government tries to create some new patent law that allows patenting things that were invented or discovered before patent law exusted