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"If you get this wrong, you’ll end up criminalizing a lot of people whose only offense is using or selling a phone that is too abnormal for the Government’s official tastes," she writes. "Either you’re an obedient consumer who uses what Samsung, Google, Apple, and Meta have to offer, or you’re a criminal. Good luck developing your moribund tech industry with that attitude."

Great that more people are speaking out against govt overreach.




Many of those lawmakers want to regress back to the 18th century, replacing modern banking with cholera. Not having a tech industry isn’t a threat to them, it’s the goal


Can you back your opinion?


Get it wrong? That's the objective, not an error!


Theres just as many politicians who fall for the “save the children” pitch as there is politicians who really truly want a surveillance state. It pays to keep repeating this. There’s no conspiracy.


Sounds like capitalist "overreach" if anything.




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