Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The rejoinder from the Cult of Mac is that those Iphone owners shouldn't own Iphones: ...
The rejoinder from the Cult of Mac is that those Iphone owners shouldn't own Iphones: if they wanted to exercise property rights over their phones, they shouldn't have bought a phone from Apple. This is the "No True Scotsman" fallacy for distraction-rectangles, and moreover, it's impossible to square with Tim Cook's insistence that if you want private communications, you *must* buy an Iphone.
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