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Re:FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer... by bombcar on Monday March 23, 2026 @09:21PM (#47497502)
Just declare that any router that can be flashed to OpenWRT without loss of functionality is allowed to be imported.
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Re:FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer... by JumpCrisscross on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:04PM (#47497826)
Requiring a one-click option to configure to open source would be a sensible across-the-board law.
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Re:FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer... by M95D on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:22AM (#47499872)
I think we all know that's never going to happen.
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Re:FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:33AM (#47499952)
> we all know that's never going to happen

Why? You'd need to get someone electorally useful involved. That, unfortunately, elimiates a lot of the nihilistic, holier-than-thou tech types. But that's pretty doable nowadays. You just need an electorally-relevant group of people on your side.

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Re:FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer... by M95D on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:43AM (#47500002)
Like I said, not going to happen.
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Re:FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer... by sedawkgrep on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @09:33AM (#47502361)
I don't understand why people with this opinion think it's worth the effort to post it.
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Re:FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer... by bombcar on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @10:58AM (#47503609)
There's a whole interesting physiology behind learned helplessness (of which this is a minor variation).

In its defense, there's some practicality to it; we wouldn't say that a "get out of debt" plan that involved spending all available money on lottery tickets is worthwhile because "its not gonna happen". But defeatism is just a shortcut to say "I don't want to talk/think about it" in many cases.

And in this one, if the US Gov't required that all routers purchased by any agency they could influence had the ability to run open source code it would certainly shake up the market.

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