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.

  • gndagreborn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 days ago

    We can’t kid ourselves that it would stop with the US. It’s too much of a low hanging fruit for governmental overreach.

    • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      It’s too much of a low hanging fruit for governmental overreach.

      I would argue this framing is at the root cause of the such initiatives.

      The government even in flawed democracies (and not only in democracies) is generally a representation of the attitude of the people. Governmental overreach stems from the behaviour and beliefs of the adult population.

      If a median representation of the population supports oligarchs, you’ll get oligarch programs under the guise of “think about the children” initiatives. Polemics about “small government” aren’t going to help.