[stingraycharles]

That is, until you only allow approved vendors (Microsoft, Cloudflare, etc) to provide these types of services. It’s very easy to pass laws like that, and it seems like centralization is the direction everything is headed.

[raesene9]

So if you could get Google/Apple/MS on board, then you could embed controls onto most people's endpoints, and actually that'd work more than trying to put the burden on websites/controlling the network. The trick is those are all US corporations who may or may not want to be responsible for that level of control.

While we still have alternate operating systems, that won't be a universal control of course. You'd have to stop people owning general purpose computing devices for that to be fully effective.

[techjamie]

> You'd have to stop people owning general purpose computing devices for that to be fully effective.

That's been the corporate and probably governmental wet dream since the iPhone released. I think the only thing keeping the x86_64 scene from doing the same thing is legacy software support, and open alternatives existing. If Microsoft could've viably banned getting software from anywhere outside their store, they would have.

I would argue with all the computers they sold in "S mode" a few years ago, they earnestly tried it in the home market.