DRosencraft
Distinguished
Contrary to popular belief, the president is not a dictator. Just because he says something doesn't mean he can automatically do it. Welcome to the world of divided government in an age of intransigence. Truth is, no matter how much whining and complaining the Congress makes about not having enough power and blah, blah, blah, the Congress has much more power than the executive, and if they wanted could virtually force the president to do whatever they want. And of the Congress, the House actually has more power than the Senate because the founders liked the idea of our nation being more in the control of the most directly representative group. Smartphones are a relatively new tech, and the law tends to trail behind innovation by a bunch. No specific regulations apply to smartphones except those that are newly written, or old regulations attached to something else but have been stretched to include the new tech. Everyone seems to hate laws, but this is a situation where a new law is needed, to protect the right to sell unlocked phones. I would note that a similar consideration would be nice for console gamers to preempt the whole quiet storm about the idea of banning a system from playing used games.