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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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[–] 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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