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.

  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    still have no idea how they will implement this, with phones that can be rooted or running something like lineageOS or others.

    But in any case, I am glad I am not from the US.

    • JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      12 minutes ago

      The EU is pushing very similar things…

      Literally Meta has been caught paying people through shell orgs all around the world to pass this kind of legislation.

    • Patrikvo@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      52 minutes ago

      But in any case, I am glad I am not from the US. Windows is made in the US. I wouldn’t be surprised if they push this crap to the rest of the world too. Same with Android and IOS.