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.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 days ago

    maybe for you…but not for me.

    I’ll switch back to a dumb phone and run a Linux distro so obscure nobody’s seen it for 25 years.

    fuck em. I’ll never comply with this shit.

    • falcunculus@jlai.luEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      Step 1: make some kind of surveillance & control system that is voluntary

      Step 2: make life for those who dont want it less convenient (you are here)

      Step 3: make non-participation in the system be in itself suspicious and a cause for further investigation

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I don’t deny that roadmap, but there is nothing I can do to stop this.

        we can try all we want, but it still won’t stop them from moving the goal and trying again.

        I’m tired of trying to convince people the worst is yet to come. all I can do is help myself and protect my family.

        • falcunculus@jlai.luEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Being tired is normal and I can only understand the feeling, but if there’s one hope it is through collective action, not individualism. Any individual or family will inevitably lose against the overwhelming power of corporations or the state.