Apparently, you don't have or recently had school-age children. Parents today consider their kids to have mobiles for emergencies and to keep track of their whereabouts. I think there will be huge pushback on this.
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 9:09 AM Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: > OK, so this is genuine, legitimate anti terror legislation being > discussed and "genuinely considered" at the USA state level - Vermont > in particular. > > "How daft! Surely they'll never get -that- one through?!#?" > > Not so fast grasshopper. > > After a day of mulling over such stupidity, a lonely neurone finally > fired and the dawning of "Oh, they're really targetting legislated > encryption back doors/ front doors, not banning of mobile phones" > crossed a lonely synapse. > > "Ahr sooo ooo oles!" I hear you cry. > > > This new strategy may actually be quite effective folks: > > - begin with legislation at state level, not federal, > thus minimizing the protester base; > > > - have a "genuine" problem: > > “The Internet and social media, accessed primarily through > cell phones, are used to radicalize and recruit terrorists, > fascists, and other extremists… Cell phones have often been > used by mass shooters of younger ages for research on > previous shootings.” > > > - handle the reaction of folks to the moronic version of the > legislation ("We ARE banning all mobile phones for all under 21 > year olds, with up to 1 YEAR jail time for violations!") with > your sigh of relief "sane" legislation: > > "Oh! <laughing> Of COURSE! How silly were we - yes you may keep > your mobile phones - we'll just put this one little legislated > back door in every comms app, the OS, the baseband OS, the CPU, > the SOC, the Ethernet chip, the network stack ... and possibly > also in the app store." > > ("Kidding, kidding - nothing to worry about, we had most of > those installed for a few years now anyway, so don't let it > bother you none, OK little snowflake?") > > > - target the "maximum likelihood, minimum kickback" state, in this > case Vermont: > > "The bill concludes that since the Vermont government has seen > fit to ban under 21 use of cigarettes, alcohol, and firearms, > this is the logical next step." > > > > Soap, legislated comms backdoors/ front doors in all mobile phones, > starting in the backwater which almost no one ever heard of, Vermont. > > Suck it up buttercup. > > > Absurdity Alert: Vermont Considers Cell Phone Ban For Under-21s, > Punishable By Prison > > https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tech-giant-doesnt-want-anyone-offended-anything-ever > > > https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/BILLS/S-0212/S-0212%20As%20Introduced.pdf > > > Seriously, does anyone have any possible solutions to this kind o > crazy which is on the way? > >