Exactly. It's not the smart part of a device that is the problem. That's an extreme overreaction.
The problem with most smart devices today is that they are proprietary, non-fully libre and open source, for-profit, cloud-connected, corporate committee designed spyware, adware, and bloatware.
Devices that are fully FLOSS (firmware, hardware, software) and based on open and free standards and protocols are awesome, but they get easily forgotten.
The Internet and your technology can be so much better. Demand it.
Completely agreed. Nowadays we even have WASM that can run more advanced things, and may even give webapps sandboxed capabilities, and can be run natively on any device with a WASM runtime.
Not everything worth discussing is easily measurable.
If I were to say that U.S. democracy is deteriorating rapidly and hasn't been in this sort of danger in decades, would you say I'm recklessly fear-mongering since it cannot be measured in a floating-point value with a rigorous, well-defined unit of measure?
You're being needlessly contrarian and reductionist.
I do. It's so incredibly easily exploitable and ripe for corruption. State owned prisons are no exception. I'd much rather inmates study to grow as people than just make them work for the sake of work.
Americans have such a warped idea of what a correctional system should look like. It's just revenge for the sake of revenge with no regard for societal costs.
Technology could be so awesome, and this is what they do.
I love technology. This is complete policy failure. Big Tech must be annihilated.