Let's be real, if a bigtech ignored judicial orders, whether you would describe it as "fighting autocracy" or "corporate fascism" is 100% dependent on who is currently in office

Google is a multi trillion dollar company, not a scrappy libertarian upstart ready to gamble everything in court

> Its the fact that it gives very powerful people a vehicle to make lobsided bets on outcomes they control.

OK, and? The market is just paying them to make information about their decisions public.

> Like mandatory seat belts, some people argue that there would be no need for CHERI if everyone "just used type-safe languages"[...] I'm not having any of it.

It wish the author would have offered a more detailed refutation than "I'm not having it". I'm pretty sure the claim is right! I'm fairly convinced that we'd be a lot better off moving to ring0-only linear-memory architectures and rely on abstraction-theoretic security ("langsec") rather than fattening up the hardware with random whack-a-mole mitigations. We're gradually moving in that direction anyway without much of a concerted effort.

> Because the ChatGPT output wouldn't be reviewed!

So what? If it's not already, frontier LLM one-shot output will be as good as heavily edited human output soon.

The EU and UK keep trying to undermine encryption, so I'd say there's a pretty clear risk to the freedom of general purpose computation.