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.

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    I mean… What’s easier, implementing an unpopular APi into your already production ready service or blacklisting a country from making requests to your reverse proxy?

    Personally I would choose the latter. Enough blowback from people will likely get this overturned.

    EU has dumped similar legislation out however, they recently have had a poor streak in regards to legislation involving digital privacy.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      You assume commercial apps will choose to lose the US market rather than comply.

      Big techs are all ready to comply with chinese authorities in order to get in! Apple did. Facebook tried repeatedly to get a pass, offering complete access to chinese authorities.

      Corporates will just do whatever makes more profit.