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It's the regulation that should focus on creating the foundations of alternative systems, not the phone manufacturers. If a bank doesn't have a website, or a govt app doesn't have a website equivalent, then Librem & co is already out of the picture, from the everyday usability standpoint. To provide the citizens freedoms, service providers need to be forced to use open standards, like HTTP & HTML, to serve an standard interface that has all the necessary functionality. No matter how many grassroots initiatives we have, if this is not provided, they are automatically all out of the race.

So really, if anything, I'd like people to focus on regulation.




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