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Wrong. This is not how rights work.

You have the right to not provide custom software and firmware and technical documentation, the right to enforce remote attestation, and the right to refuse service to whoever you wish.

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>You have the right to not provide custom software and firmware and technical documentation,

Just like all food sellers have the right not to provide documentation on the ingredients and nutrition of their products?


Correct. I buy food from vendors on the beach in foreign countries - it has no documentation. It’s a consensual transaction I choose to engage in.

In the context of this discussion, who cares what's possible in foreign countries?

> Just like all food sellers have the right not to provide documentation on the ingredients and nutrition of their products?

I agree that they should have this right. My personal anecdote explains that the citizens of other countries do have this right without the world falling apart.


>in foreign countries

It may surprise you to learn that this is not within the purview of Montana state law.


> Just like all food sellers have the right not to provide documentation on the ingredients and nutrition of their products?

I agree that they should have this right. My personal anecdote explains that the citizens of other countries do have this right without the world falling apart.


Your right to do all that should be taken away. Our freedom to own our computers is more important than your right to punish us for trying to do so by banishing us from digital society via remote attestation. Your only option should be to accept that we own our computers and deal with us on those terms. Refusing to do so should be criminalized on the same level as racism.

You have the freedom to own a computer.

> Refusing to do so should be criminalized on the same level as racism.

Racism isn’t criminal? At least not in any country anyone wants to live in lol


Holding racists beliefs isn’t, but many of the actions that those beliefs tend to lead in the absence of regulation to are.

Not the claim the person I’m responding to made.

It’s pretty obviously what they meant.

Disagree, sometimes you'll see real people on this website advocating for racism to be illegal. It wouldn't surprise me at all if that's what they truly meant.



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