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.

  • LostWanderer@fedia.io
    46·
    5 days ago

    We will keep defeating these nasty bills, we have to keep pushing and not just giving into what the government wants. As what the government wants is nasty as fuck! There will be means to circumvent such changes, Ageless Linux is working on categorizing the methods of evasion, keeping track of what Linux distros are deciding and doing in regards to Age Verification.

      • LostWanderer@fedia.io
        10·
        5 days ago

        Oofta, I’d love to have multiple parties with different priorities to vote for. That would be a huge ask, figuring that out for the American political system would be amazing.

          • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
            8·
            5 days ago

            Problem is, what reason do Democrats or Republicans have to change it? As far as I can see they love trading back every term or two which means any electoral change will require tearing both parties down. Or could you start with states / towns first? I don’t know enough about US voting.

      • bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        5 days ago

        its almost like our elected officials have forgotton who they work for. maybe its time for a reminder?

    • foodandart@lemmy.zipEnglish
      102·
      5 days ago

      The thing is, this horseshit is only happening because adults have let computers - more specifically, iPads and phones - become their children’s babysitters.

      Have you seen any of the “iPad Kids” videos?

      Holy shit, what fucking irresponsible parents.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialBannedEnglish
        34·
        5 days ago

        this horseshit is only happening because adults have let computers - more specifically, iPads and phones - become their children’s babysitters.

        This horseshit is only happening because Meta is lobbying hard for it and throwing tons of money at it, because they want ‘protecting children’ to be the OS’s responsibility, not the website’s.