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The scammers are lining up to get their scams okayed - like Verizon, which wants to bring back the long-banned practice of locking your phone so that it only works on their network and refusing to unlock it:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/verizon-tries-to-get-out-of-merger-condition-requiring-it-to-unlock-phones/

Verizon had to promise to unlock its customers' phones as a condition of being given exclusive control over billions' worth of the public spectrum, and in exchange for the right to buy its competitor Tracphone, in a nakedly anticompetitive merger.

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