This is going to be a terribly cynical comment, but I've noticed a trend here on HN to introduce laws to fix problems.
The short version is that, no, you can't law yourself out of this (or pretty much anything. )
Firstly, laws have national jurisdiction. There are no "all the countries agreed to this" laws.
Secondly, the US can't actually pass any laws anyway. Congress is deadlocked. It can't even get around to killing daylight saving clock changes (which passed the senate with unanimous support.)
Plus any laws (or, more recently executive orders) just end up in court forever. And when passed may, or may not, be enforced (or enforceable. )
And that's before I point out that big tech buys (sorry, "lobbies") govt in the first place. Apple, Meta, Google would all pay to make this bill go away.
Lastly, everyone seems to forget that interoperability leads to spam. Email is open and completely flooded. SMS is open and basically unusable. Whatsapp grew their user base in part because the experience was spam free. So even if laws declaring openness were proposed they would be far from universally supported.
The short version is that, no, you can't law yourself out of this (or pretty much anything. )
Firstly, laws have national jurisdiction. There are no "all the countries agreed to this" laws.
Secondly, the US can't actually pass any laws anyway. Congress is deadlocked. It can't even get around to killing daylight saving clock changes (which passed the senate with unanimous support.)
Plus any laws (or, more recently executive orders) just end up in court forever. And when passed may, or may not, be enforced (or enforceable. )
And that's before I point out that big tech buys (sorry, "lobbies") govt in the first place. Apple, Meta, Google would all pay to make this bill go away.
Lastly, everyone seems to forget that interoperability leads to spam. Email is open and completely flooded. SMS is open and basically unusable. Whatsapp grew their user base in part because the experience was spam free. So even if laws declaring openness were proposed they would be far from universally supported.