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.

  • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    To make matters worse, this is an Operating System level requirement, which means it has more permissions than any other piece of software you run

    That’s not a given, it could easily be implemented as a normal application with normal permissions, that the OS starts when needed.

    • Hakuso@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      You say that like they ever do things the right way, even a fair chunk of the proposals I see for Linux take it out of the user’s hands.

      I already nuked my hard drive and went to Debian when Microslop kept trying to force me to “update” my local account and turned their creepy AI stuff back on again and again no matter how many times I dug in with PowerShell to shut it off.

      We’re going to be running a fork not licensed for use in the US or Europe soon enough, or bowing to surveillance and de-anonymization. Or maybe go back to legacy systems, like dumping systemd and wayland for init and x11, just to have things actually work for us again rather than embrace the ever-present creep of the “Framework of Fuckery” ™ that is being pushed by the corpo scum and their pet “Representatives.”