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You willing to go to jail then? Or just asking others to do so?
Yes. If US law mandates that I have to run around naked and screaming when in a supermarket I simply won't do it because it says so. Mostly because US laws have absolute no effect in Denmark. Except those bastards in our government who decided US soldiers on Danish soil would be above Danish law, but that's another discussion...
But if I were in the US, well, it's my device and its open source, so who's stopping me? And if my US-backed Fedora distro is getting affected, who is stopping me from going SUSE, Mint, Manjaro, or some other European distro?
I'm absolutely willing to go to jail. Many human rights have been won thanks to people who went to jail to defend them. And in any case we're already in jail. It may be a spacious jail now, but they'll shrink it more and more.
Asking others to do so? By no means no. If they don't want a democracy, then good for them. They only need to bow their head down and obey. And later on, maybe, they must even watch out not to protest, because that won't be allowed by the law either.
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