Then the Linux phones will come under regulatory pressure to reveal this information and shut down freedoms.

Who would they pressure? And even if they were successful in pressuring them, people would just remove it or fork.

	▲	pessimizer 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The chipmakers. In my dystopia, there are military permanently stationed at all of them, making sure that nothing gets out of there that can run unauthorized OSes or LLMs. Innovation Force.

Linux is far, far harder to regulate.

Android never had the FLOSS ethos of Linux or the GNU project at large.