> Weird response to a pretty benign question.

How was this question:

> I think basically every country exercises this power

You quoted something that wasn't part of the question, which was "I'm wondering if this is a new thing".

Their impression was that it wasn't and that other countries do similar things. Stating your understanding of a situation helps guide discussion and helps people answer your inquiries. Doing that should be encouraged, not somehow treated as an endorsement of tyranny.

And your point is ...?

We were feasting on lies. Rather than demand honesty our instincts instead reach for a deathly sort of deliciousness. Anyways what was your point in the discussion?

We'd rather have the artisanal hand-crafted lies of the past than today's AI-generated lies.

Can you be more specific?

Water is lost in drops a year to the universe. It’s raining somewhere. The EU having a poor memory of historical weather patterns.

Yes, I think climate change is real and we need to fix it. Droughts have been recorded in history for centuries, long before climate change would have ever existed.

Let’s fix the climate, let’s also try and be rational about historical regional weather patterns.

First, Gatekeeper was introduced, but you could globally set in system preferences if unsigned software is enabled. Then this setting option was removed. What will come next? I do not know but I started to migrate off the ecosystem. Just in case.

(At least on macOS one can still disable routined. Unlnike on iOS.)

On the other hand homebrew maintainers a deprecating software that is not signed (like Allacritty and Librecad).

Common sense would be not prioritising inefficient technology to automate few things and instead invest in people?