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Just one highlight of how this is ridiculous and an obvious slippery slope fallacy.
How can you even legally enforce this? In the US you can’t just walk into someone’s house and start searching for hard drives. You need a warrant and probable cause. Since it’s likely going to be a misdemeanor this is highly unenforceable. Nobody is willingly going to let their home be searched by the police for the gain of some corporate shithead.
Also you can’t retroactively make all drives illegal, so older devices like floppy’s, tapes, CDs and other storage media. Where do they fall into this spectrum? You would have to specify a lot of what is considered legal local storage and what isn’t. It would be a litigious nightmare.
Ok, but at this point you're not arguing they're wrong. Only that enforcement will be tricky.
Also, I can predict exactly how it's going to work, because I've been seeing the same trend. A new forced Windows update will just make it so that storage no longer connects because it's "unsafe".
What about Linux? What about Mac? What if the user is using a “no longer supported” version of windows. Those won’t be getting updates.
This issue is extremely problematic and these are some of the variables that need consideration. Nothing is as simple as flipping a switch.
Most people don't know that Linux even exists and Mac usage is something like 2%. Those are effectively rounding errors. A lot of people would switch away from Windows, but many might not.
Linux is 2% and mac is higher but I don’t know that figure off the top of my head. The amount of users still on Windows XP is shockingly high overseas. In any case. There is no easy way to implement, enforce or otherwise enable compliance on this. Hard drives are a core functionality of a computer ecosystem and there is no way I can see local storage being disabled so a handful of cloud based software solutions can turn a bigger profit. It just causes way too many issues.
Not commenting on the content, but you should not dismiss an argument because it contains a slippery slope. A slippery slope fallacy is an informal fallacy, meaning it's existence does not inherently mean an argument is flawed.
A slippery slope is only slippery until it becomes a real slope.
Correct, but this one absolutely is a flawed argument.