Yeah but most of y’all wouldn’t accept the imprisonment willingly.
Have you been to prison? I've been incarcerated before already after having my rights violated. Let's not go there. Make less assumptions.
It would be a fine or a few days of jail until bail is posted, at worst. And then a media shit show where the public is certain to side with the developer who is having their rights violated to discourage this from ever happening again.
The public even got the back of weev for his bullshit arrest. Weev, one of the shittiest people to ever live. But rights are rights.
Anyway, the nature of a slippery slope like this one is that the punishments will get worse over time as the government further vilifies those who push against things like this and encryption backdoors.
That's not the point. The point is that people who don't face a real possibility of being convicted and imprisoned are the ones who make the most noise about how they're willing to accept imprisonment (or, worse, are cheering on others to be imprisoned as some sort of Cyberpunk Martyr).
As I said elsewhere - it's easy to be an Internet Tough Guy when you (think you) have little to lose.
Instead of positioning yourself adversarially and making unfounded and unwarranted claims about others, it would be more productive to engage in good faith and seek to lend a hand.
You've already made flat-out incorrect assumptions about me, indirect or not. Calibrate yourself.
You've gone off the rails. You're not the hero saving the world that you make yourself out to be. Get over yourself.
I'm done with this thread.