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Magnifying power relationships is the entire point of capitalism - consumers have always been at the whim of larger organizations and their wishes, with their only agency being when they decide whether to purchase a product or not. If both Product A and Product B are amazing and so prevalent that you must purchase one to be as productive as others in society, but you don't like certain terms they impose on you, then you don't have any options and must decide to either deal with it or go without using that product. Saying otherwise is effectively suggesting that companies be forced to make product in a certain way to accommodate your requests.

>>judge2+(OP)
> Magnifying power relationships is the entire point of capitalism

Only if by "entire point of capitalism", you mean the philosophical paradigm that highly centralizing corporations market to gain more power and ultimately undermine the distributed sine qua non of capitalism.

> Saying otherwise is effectively suggesting that companies be forced to make product in a certain way to accommodate your requests.

You're missing market inefficiency and the development of Schelling points based on the incentive for uniformity. In this case specifically, the inability of a company to investigate what I am running on my computer creates the concept of protocols, and keeps each party on a more even footing. Remote attestation changes that dynamic, undermining the Schelling point of protocols and replacing them with take-it-or-leave-it authoritarianism extending further into our lives.