Given what I've heard from Schumer and Jefferies, their top priorities are using their power to enrich themselves and benefit their allies. They have no intention of governing well.
Control the gaming, control the men.
They definitely see personal computing as competition. They see people as potential market slaves.
But they can't remove them. People hate lots of things that aren't going anywhere.
But flock cameras and Cctv is fine. Cameras and microphones in consumer electronics is totally fine...
Same reason Mario maker required completion before sharing the level you made.
Can't afford not to. Dependency on America is a massive liability now. Nobody is returning to that golden age of trade. Americans ended their own dominance.
"fixable"? There is nothing to fix. It gives consumers an incredible and rare means to access to a market product. When Gabe goes, steam will begin it's slow and assured decline into yet another greedy corporate business model.
But they won't because their leadership wants it. Chuck and Hakeem are corporate dems who like keeping the will of the people in chains.
Victim? It was an accident...that's a hell of a word to use.
No new tech will make us free if it's controlled by the slaver class.
But it can still do it. Just not for us.