Because your clothes and paint do not need security updates, since they do not talk to the internet. Your mattress cannot be made part of a botnet.

You can do whatever you want with your phone too, it isn’t illegal to jailbreak an iPhone for example.

Because capitalists extend control wherever they can to maximize profitability.

If you want decisions that corporations make to be aligned with the desires of their users, you should be advocating for software/hardware built by consumer cooperatives.

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