Valid point. Customers would then need to prepare for a new reality where their options are limited and potentially more expensive.

right, and the small guy might offer you transparency and guarantee privacy while big tech won’t.

This is being proposed as a completely voluntary program. No need to participate in it if you don't want an FCC cybersecurity label on your product.

right, so then people will not buy your product because you don’t have the label and you cannot afford to pay 10K-20K to some testing lab while vc backed startups or big tech can… so it takes away any chance for you as a small guy to compete in the market. no thanks.

I don't see why a small shop can't do this. The testing should be supported by the government. You don't need to be a food scientist to get FDA approval to sell a cookie.

in consumer electronics people pay over 10k to get a simple device tested for EMC before slapping on CE and FCC.

btw, there is already a label. it’s called “open source”