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gruezyesterday at 6:25 PM1 replyview on HN

>Same tool is very handy if you hypothetically wanted to control spread of anything else, like anti ice apps for instance.

That's a weak argument because they can already do that today with google's play protect and apple's app notarization.


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fc417fc802yesterday at 9:38 PM

They already have one way of doing it therefore we should make a legal carve out to give them additional ways of doing it even though we don't want them to be able to in the first place.

That doesn't make sense. It's a defeatist attitude that serves only to advantage the opponent.