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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    2 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.