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?