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.

  • Patrikvo@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 hours 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.