In whatever context he said this, the statement is true in essence. Anyone who exchange freedom (in every sense) for ghostly safety (which are most often promised by gums and scammers) does not deserve to be called a free person. Their inevitably the powerful of this world is simply considered social cattle. And therefore, accordingly, they are in practice. Like with slaves. Freedom is supported only by your own strength (in every sense) and the ability to withstand the challenges. This is an endless struggle for survival and freedom. They never stops. Only in today's times, powerful layers, the chain neatly made more longer for ordinary citizens, creating the appearance of freedom for the inexperienced in the theme of the townsfolk.

This history proves over and over again, but alas, humanity goes in a circle. Each time stepping on a rake, it temporarily and forcedly sobers, but then again turns into a herd of sheep of the led into the next version of slavery - more subtly and artificially built, but in fact all the same.

And the smartphone market especially clearly showed how people thoughtlessly drove themselves into digital slavery, exchanging freedom for temporary comfort ...

Quote from: NikoB on August 14, 2022, 22:32:01Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (с) 1755 by Benjamin Franklin...

You know he said that in order to tax a wealthy family to pay for war right? Essentially reducing your freedoms and making you pay for the price of someone else's mistake.

But I digress I will never support Apple devices not because they have privacy or are feature issues. But they are actually really terrible phones to begin with.

It is for the sake of this that in smartphones they removed the owner's control through the deprivation of his root rights. And the same thing, by conspiracy, is promoted in the world of PC via TPM chip. The ultimate aims of these b*stards is to decide that the fictitious owner of the device will see on the screen with unlotted advertisements and he will read, receive information, only pleasing TNCs and the authorities, i.e. vering kleptocracy (in the final of this trends)..

This is the same cynicism and arrogance of the highest sample from Apple (ok, if Xiaomi, which once sold cheap smartphones, was at least justified there ads in firmware, but Apple is 100% excluded taking into account its simply glaring greed) - to sell a person a smartphone with a cost several times lower in the price in stores and then still show him advertising..

So far, the population of the world will not be recalled (unfortunately I do not believe in these barates-consumers), the world will turn into a digital concentration camp.

Even in the "free" Android, typical factory firmware does not have root rights for the owner, and manufacturers in every possible way prevent their owners, at the first request, although this should be in the firmware by default.

Moreover, not a single firmware, neither under iOS or android, has a full-fledged firewall as PC in order to independently suppress network activity unauthorized by the owner. And it was done by companies also intentionally. Only a few hundredth % of the total population of the world can independently compiling the firmware from sources in same Android and remove potential holes from there, adding support for full firewall and other important things, as a reliable (inaccessible special gov services) P2P and device encryption.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." (с) 1755 by Benjamin Franklin...