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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] aircooledJenkins@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

its like banning math

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 years ago

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

[–] Thisisforfun@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago

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