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GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 23 points 5 months ago (6 children)

If the US government bans Graphene, Motorola will drop them in 1/1000th of a heartbeat.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 5 months 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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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They're trying to argue national security for Anthropic, a US based company.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    That only bans the use of anthropic for government use. So no government entities or contractors could use it. We already do this for some other companies. BOD 17-01

    Edit. Granted what they are doing for anthropic is slightly different since it is an executive order not a BOD.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    do you really think someone gonna actually care if an operating system has age verification beyond the mainstream ones...and so what, they gonna set up another mirror. big deal.

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