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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by russdill on Sunday March 04, 2018 @10:09PM (#16518459)
Don't forget that most new phones have locked bootloaders and cryptographically secure boot processes. If lawmakers required manufactures put a piece of software on every phone, it would be technically possible and very difficult to bypass.
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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by ball_of_lint on Sunday March 04, 2018 @10:42PM (#16518584)
What about phones that have already been bought? You can easily get a phone today that runs an open source OS and boatloader: As bad as this bill may be, I doubt they could justify confiscating all of them, but short of that there is no way to enforce that law.

Similarly with computers - with a law like this in place Linux cannot exist.

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Re:Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Fre... by russdill on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @05:33PM (#16532711)
It's not about controlling all the people, it's about controlling a significant percentage of people.
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