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.

  • towerful@programming.devEnglish
    13·
    8 hours ago

    Or, the bill fails.
    But all of its objectives get packaged attached to other bills that are actually required to be passed.
    So you get some random bill about the shape of car exhausts which suddenly requires OS providers to verify users ages

    • thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Honestly, this is how we’re going overall it seems. They’ll just throw it into a government funding bill and then be like “don’t you want to pay the air traffic controllers?”