If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time to worry.

OK, bud. What are you doing to stop it?

Write your congressperson? Oh shit, they're on the payroll. Or have such limited authority it amounts to nothing.

Well what about your local councilperson? Ah shit they've got union backing from a supplier and won't budge.

Well shit. Let's post some infographics on instagram or write a rallying cry on Reddit! Damn, only a dozen or so people looked.

Well how about an Apple or Google boycott! That'll show em! Oh... Apple made $274,000,000,000 last year alone? And Google made $146,000,000,000?

So tell us, how do we fix it when literally every avenue, outside of some edgelord Fight Club bullshit, has already been co-opted and cut off? even with

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