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wju3h3uwh··on Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month
Quantity is a type of quality. Lots of people mainly use cloud storage as a cold storage locker for backing up photos and documents. I'm sure there's ways to innovate in the space that would make certain clouds more appealing, but most solutions are already effective as simple storage lockers. Doing it better instead of cheaper at this point is more likely to be either a megacorp affiliation perk, like a discount on a YouTube Music subscription, or phone company style family plan discounts "Get discounted storage for the whole family if you pay slightly less than the price of four memberships!"
wju3h3uwh··on The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption
Why can't people who also understand technology be vulnerable to emotional pleas too? Basically all of my tech friends are passionately against guns despite never having been victims of guns, knowing someone who was a victim of guns, or guns being especially problematic by the numbers in the US. And yet they're drawn to the position because of the emotional overtones that are ubiquitous in coverage of the subject.

Not that the situations are perfect parallels, but I think it's worth reflecting on since this ultimately seems like consternation born from hubris. Everyone is vulnerable to emotional appeals in the same way that everyone is vulnerable to appeals to logic and authority. Highlighting the rhetorical nature of a specific appeal without making a counter appeal doesn't do anything productive to shift the dialogue.

It's the same reason that the 'nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide' crowd haven't lost much ground in the mainstream despite years of the digital privacy movement trying different tactics. Most people in the mainstream, even if they accept the expanded definitions of privacy unique to the digital landscape, don't feel like they've suffered in a significant enough way to be worth resisting the emotional appeal of helping the 1% of victims who the current system fails.