Your comment has been downvoted, I guess.  I don&#x27;t see why.  I think the is important so I&#x27;m willing to walk&#x2F;think through your argument.  Of course! :)  That&#x27;s discourse.<p>The kill switch and blackbox chips are exactly the sort of thing I want to avoid.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how we&#x27;d get there from the rule I want.  I guess the rule I want is &quot;No machine shall disobey its owner&quot;.  And device manufactures could be punished if they sell devices that are found to disobey their owners.<p>Seems to me that would address the fritz chip, and the kill switch, etc.<p>Related: are all rules inherently bad?  Or do we just have a lot of bad ones and no reason to think new ones would be better?