Parents Decide Act (H.R. 8250)
www.govtrack.us
To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes.

So, OS-level age-gating is going federal, which will effectively kill your rights to device ownership and what’s left of free speech and expression.

Enjoy your free speech while you still have it because this is a clear attempt to erase that right.

SOPA never died, it just went into hiding until time to reemerge, and now’s that time, this is basically SOPA in a save the kids trenchcoat.

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    921·
    9 hours ago

    Or a parent could, I don’t know, just parent their own kids instead of expecting the government to.

    • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      6 hours ago

      I got so many downvotes last time I suggested this, it was just comical to me how many people get pissed at the implication that they aren’t watching their kids, while not watching their kids.

    • lando55@lemmy.zipEnglish
      14·
      7 hours ago

      Why not both?

      I fully expect the government to pull this shit, but I’ll parent my kids not to tolerate it.

      • jaschen306@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        The government is there to give us the tools to parent our kids, not to actually parent them. Give us free and open internet, but have training on how to be a diligent parent.