For that matter, does the 13th amendment prohibit the FBI from using the coercive force of the courts to compel Apple to create a product that does not yet exist?
If Apple made soapbox racers instead of tech devices and the government came to them and said “make us a motorcycle that can beat your soapbox racer” and Apple, who has never made a motorcycle, doesn’t know if it can make a motorcycle, and believes that making motorcycles will hurt it’s soapbox racer business has said no. But the government says take your tools and your people and make us some motorcycles anyway or face court sanctions, fines, and other punishments. Wouldn’t that be involuntary servitude?
