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Yes and people take advantage of that freedom to extract a terrible toll on society in lost privacy, freedom, money, terror and the like. There is no freedom for just the good people without also allowing freedom for those who prey on others.

It's like arguing that we should have no laws whatsoever because they impact your freedom to do whatever you want—but no one wants to live in that society. If you don't like Apple or Google or Microsoft that is still your privilege but arguing that is what everyone should have is disingenuous.

The Internet supports your freedom to say or do whatever but people every day show that without some limits everyone suffers. You might think you are smart enough to defeat all those who will try to take you out, but there are much smarter people than you or I out there and lots more of them, and many of them are evil.



Your comment reminds me of that Simpson's clip where they move and Bart is put in the remdial Leg Up Program: “Let me get this straight. We’re behind the rest of our class and we’re going to catch up to them by going slower than they are?”




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