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 <[1]zen@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:    âThe 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.â  - 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! 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  [2]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tech-giant-doesnt-want-any one-offended-anything-ever  [3]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? References 1. mailto:zen@freedbms.net 2. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tech-giant-doesnt-want-anyone-offended-anything-ever 3. https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2020/Docs/BILLS/S-0212/S-0212%20As%20Introduced.pdf