Yeah, but using a dongle as a fallback on a new device feels wrong. This hardware should ‘just work’ in 2025.

Are there actually only 16 deaths caused by terrorists? Don't they have mass shootings every week?

They don’t appear to count mass shootings as terrorism and even still if there were one occurring every day the numbers would still be comparatively small.

I never thought about this topic to have an opinion on this, but this is the best take for sure!

The "software is speech" idea was popularized partly by being used (successfully) as an argument in litigation about U.S. software export controls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_as_speech

(It was later partly rejected by other courts in the DMCA anticircumvention context.)

This argument doesn't imply that companies have to help you publish your software, because they might be entitled to some kind of editorial control over which speech they do or don't distribute. But it does at least imply that the stakes of such control are very high and that free speech norms may be implicated by them!