The thing that has struck me the most is the complete lack of opposition. Not of the incessant quibbles online, but real opposition in the streets by everyday people.

Users are never given an option in capitalist-American-spyware & -malware–suspicious ‘software’. You either accept unfair terms or… no. There is no option to decline. There’s always just an “ok” button. The fact that governments (the supreme body that is supposed to… well, um… govern) have just left this space, completely vacant… is very fucking odd. There are no governing bodies for software or for consumers of software. It’s a pure capitalist hellscape of no-choice. One giant monopoly that offers you not convenience, because there’s no choice. How can something be convenient when there’s no choices? I bring up convenience because it’s the term most brought up by users in their complicit use of totalitarian software. It’s the same as being dictated to by a communist-thug and mentally deluding yourself that you comply out of an overwhelming sense of it being convenient. You don’t get a choice.

The jab at communism isn’t out of place, because the cold war rhetoric stays in living memory and were we not told the communist states–even those too shy to admit it, but just brave enough to self-subscribe as socialist–were we not told they had the secret police? They had no consumer choices–only one brand of toothpaste; only one brand of shoe; only one brand of car: all brandishing the state’s logo. Yet look around you and it’s a global duopoly of America’s Apple & Google. You don’t get a choice. You have to comply, as any freedom loving capitalist would. You will accept American-spyware. The American-spyware-corps will look after you. You just need to comply, because it’s convenient. You don’t have a choice.

Yes, use libre mobile-computers, but the need for public governance of technology is now. Countries need to have software sovereignty. It’s embarrassing for a non-American state to publish their ‘apps’ only via American spyware companies. It’s ludicrous. To give them an exclusive contract in distribution and to pay Apple or Google to supply, whilst they turn around and tighten the hatch: making it harder for users to install packages that do not originate from their monopolistic ‘market places’. It’s a joke.

If you’re a developer do not publish on American spyware platforms. Do not do it. Do not compromise. Fight these duopolies.

Remember kids, always buy Google Pixels (or any other good phone where you can swap AVB keys) and flash GrapheneOS/LineageOS on it.

This is purely bound to official Google Mobile Services and to the Play store. So the degoogled Android ROMs will help.

…and time to upgrade toa dumb phone.