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Re:Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowin... by eek2121 on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @01:24AM (#30775254)
I will partially disagree with this. Irreparable hardware/software changes like this should absolutely be banned, however, I disagree that we should dictate speech, with speech in this case being how the software was written. An analogy would be telling people they can't protest vs. shooting them when they try to.
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Re:Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowin... by account42 on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @06:53AM (#30777101)
But the core issue here is the company restricting users from running their own software so the analogy would be more that a company would not be allowed to tell their hitment to shoot protesters even though that is technically speech.
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