@pthane my understanding is politicians/gov officials have been manipulated by EU corps, Ericsson, Orange, etc. who feign concern (and advocacy) for privacy and security as a ploy to drive legislation that ultimately stiffles open source, which they see as a threat both in practice (by the MAGA corps you note who leverage--ride--on open source) and through competition (by actual open source projects/communities and the potential loss of their proprietary "standards" in favor of open standards).