First of all, I have no affiliation with Apple, not do I own any Apple stock.

Do you have any affiliations we should be aware of?

Secondly, I haven’t ‘defended Apple’ in any comments. Indeed there are comments in which I make a judgement about this topic where I say that what Apple is doing is distasteful and offensive.

Elsewhere I have pointed out that if Apple wants to scan people’s devices they have many other mechanisms at their fingertips than this narrowly tailored tool.

What exactly do you think I’m ‘defending Apple’ from? Quite a few of my comments are critical of false or immaculate characterizations of what Apple is actually doing.

If you consider that to be a defense of Apple, then I disagree.

For the most part there just seems to be a lot of confusion about what Apple is doing, and general frustration about the state of computing.

Do you really think of these as ‘attacks’ on Apple?

Wow you're right - over the past 9 days zepto's generated ~5 pages of comments defending Apple's scanning. Why would one dedicate so much time and effort to rise to the defense of a trillion dollar company?

9 days? Ha. It's been months (if not years) of this user vehemently defending Apple, regardless of what the issue at hand is.

The amount of time he or she has invested in sticking up for Apple is astronomical.

I have a bunch of time on my hands right now. This is a good way to pass the time when for reasons beyond my control I can’t be working on projects.