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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Cyberpunk 2020/RED/2077] If corporations are so evil, why do anti-corporate rebels buy their implants and prosthetics? Don't they essentially give up their body autonomy to whoever can control/hack their cyberware?

This goes beyond "Down with Capitalism! *Sent from my IPhone*" shit. If Apple decided to stop all anti-corporatists from using their products, then at worst the rebels would lose the use of their phones and/or computers. If it were body-mounted weapons (e.g. mantis arm blades) and optic implants, *at best* they stop working and all the rebels go blind and lose the use of their weapons. At worst, those weapons and implants explode and/or attempt to kill their owners. As seen in the recent E3 trailer, one's own cyberware can be hacked by a third party who's not even a corp agent. If someone with Kiroshi eyes attempted to kill an important Kiroshi executive, what's stopping the executive from turning off their eyes? If someone attempted to kill Kei Arasaka with Arasaka-manufactured mantis arm blades, what's stopping the CEO from turning the arms on their owner?

Why buy corp-manufactured implants and weapons if you're fighting against the very same corp, especially when such devices are proven to be hackable?
gpt
It doesn't go beyond the iPhone communist.


Both groups were born into the systems they want to change/destroy and must participate in the systems if they want to accomplish their goals. The iPhone communist absolutely *needs* a device capable of connecting to the internet and he can't get one and use it without taking part in the capitalist system which created the device and makes it possible to connect to the internet.

The rebels need implants and augmentations to interact with the systems they intend on changing/destroying. They might get hacked in this war of theirs and die, they might not get hacked and still die but the only way to have a chance at winning is using the tech even if it's created by the thing they seek to end... like the iPhone communist (But to be fair he's probably not getting killed in his twitter war against captialism)