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[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 1 year ago

I don't know how the government will be able to effectively ban E2EE and honestly I want to see them try

[-] Neato@kbin.social 61 points 1 year ago

100%? Impossible. But they can effectively ban it.

Pass a law that makes any US company, or company doing business in the US, not allowed to host E2EE-enabled apps. This now bans them from the App Store and Play Store. 99% of users won't find or choose to side-load for android users. Then they can make E2EE actually illegal to distribute in the US. They'll almost never bother going after individuals, but this effectively makes hosting a US-based website unable to distribute E2EE programs. So people will need to use foreign sites. Which the US can force ISPs to block via a whack-a-mole on individual sites.

This isn't very likely, but hell Congress was decently close to banning TikTok for no real reason so who knows?

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago

It seems like the great firewall in china, really scary times for the freedom of the web

[-] JPAKx4@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

More like the midly warm pot, as vpns will still be legal

[-] aircooledJenkins@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

https://mashable.com/article/montana-tiktok-ban-what-to-know

Montana's GOP didn't get the memo that it's a stupid idea.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago

its like banning math

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Tories are just trying to kick up as much shit as possible before they're kicked out so they can blame the next party for the fallout.

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

Seems like something politicians who have not touched a computer would try to pass

[-] Thisisforfun@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

You really think things will be different if you're under a different colored heel? 🤣

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