• collar@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        How does the government ban an os? Can’t is a strong word, but I don’t see that happening. It’s a Canadian based foundation, not a Chinese or Russian company where they could argue national security in the same way they did with Huawei or TikTok.

        It’s more likely a federal os-level age verification law gets passed and grapheneOS compromises or backs out out of the US market.

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          3 days ago

          GrapheneOS is not a company doing business. If they’re banned, that just means Motorola can’t sell pre-installed phones, but that doesn’t change anything about the phone compatibility with GOS. You’ll have to install it yourself, just like today.

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        4 days ago

        The rest of the planet may have something to say on that front. There IS more to the world than naziland.

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          Yes, but the US is a huge, profitable market. And companies will bend over backwards to appease Nazis so long as it’s more profitable to do so than not.

          Within the US we have issues with all the US History books being written to comply with Texas’s “slavery was actually good for black people” bullshit because Texas is such a big market and everybody wants in on it.

          • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            Yes, other markets on the planet are marginal. Never mind that the EU is actually larger. In many metrics than the US. It’s not even in the “funny” pages of us websites, so apart to a minority of educated readers, it doesn’t even exist. And let’s not even start about the rest of the planet.

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              3 days ago

              But meeting the US’s requirements doesn’t prevent products from being sold in Europe.

              It’s the same reason film studios started pandering to China and why frying pans sold in Florida have a cancerous materials warning label that’s only required in California.

              Companies cater to restrictive regulations in major markets because those products are still legal in less-restrictive territories.

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                3 days ago

                You’ve got this all wrong. If anything, meeting us requirements would make eu people more suspicious of whatever product it is.