I think it could be because there is/was a high likelihood that Trump could defame election companies like Smartmatic during the speech. Fox News had to settle defamation defamation claims over the 2020 election for nearly $1B. ABC and NBC aren’t necessarily shielded from liability just because Trump says it on live TV.

He’s transparent… he wants to sell them

Probably are. I think it still think a federal age verification bill has low likelihood of passing, but I’d say that’s more plausible than an outright ban on GrapheneOS

How does the government ban an os? Can’t is a strong word, but I don’t see that happening. It’s a Canadian based foundation, not a Chinese or Russian company where they could argue national security in the same way they did with Huawei or TikTok.

It’s more likely a federal os-level age verification law gets passed and grapheneOS compromises or backs out out of the US market.

It’s not a federal law right now. It’s CA afaik. So Motorola could sell non-grapheneos phones there (and people could just install later).