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.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    6·
    23 hours ago

    It’s fucking Linux.

    If you really wanted to, you could make a fork of your favorite distro and remove the age-gating shit yourself.

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      22 hours ago

      would be great to make a distro with it that had a very easy way to remove it. Like remove X folder and it won’t do it and will detroy any record of one put in.