Privacy

If you fail to do this negligently, there's a $2,500 fine; if you do so intentionally, it's $7,500. That'll intimidate all those dotcom billionaires.

It's also about driving the players they can't control (e.g. volunteer open-source developers) out of the tech world. Only corporations will be allowed to develop software.

Combine this with Google locking down Android development, the moves to make it unaffordable to own hardware, and the attempts to prevent the use of E2EE and VPNs, and it's a multi-front global push to take computing out of the hands of the people. We are supposed to rent our tech from corporations with thorough surveillance in place, and use it only in the ways they permit. Anything else is considered subversive and a threat.