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.
If you go to house.gov they let you look up your rep by zip code. I’d point out that the data is almost certain to be subjected to a breach, which would expose way more sensitive data than usual to whoever wanted it.
All my reps are Republican. They’ll throw my letters in the trash.
Start looking up freely available information about them on the internet and sending that to them. At some point they will start to recognize that privacy is important.
Sounds like a good way to end up in prison.
I don’t think you understand what I’m suggesting.
Sending someone a “This is publically available information readily available on the internet that can and will be abused by people once this bill goes through in conjunction with the type of data that will be leaked from said data collection for ID efforts and it’s already dangerous now” isn’t the same as sending federal judges anonymous pizza. One is a well understood threat, the other is a demonstration from a constituent reaching out to an elected official.
I’m not saying anonymously threaten them.
You would end up in prison doing this. It would be deemed harassment of a government offical. People have tried this before. They have ended up harassed by police, injured and jailed because of it.
The court won’t care. They’ll say “I feared for my safety” and the judge will say “prison” (simplified).