>Where you one that downvoted every post saying we should have unions in software so we can protect ourselves as a group

In other professions such unions inevitably end up building a chummy relationship with the government and going along with whatever it says, software engineering wouldn't be any different. If anything it'd be worse because the government could pressure the union into removing the license of engineers who make privacy-preserving software.

Right, because governments don't have other ways of forcing companies to do what they want anyway.

Looks over at Anthropic