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.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The court won’t care. They’ll say “I feared for my safety” and the judge will say “prison” (simplified).

    • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      You should probably look up the arrest records of civil rights activists and give a good hard think about whether or not you’re willing to be the problem in order to enact a solution because we will not prevail on this in the long run without taking some blows.

      This countries government has already proven time and again that they will literally kill people who have done nothing wrong in order to get what they want.