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.

    • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      They can if they want Google services.
      There may have been concern from banking apps and the likes as well? Though it’s been a while since I’ve looked it up.

      Edit:

      The Strategy

      In general, it is difficult to balance the needs of the average user who benefits from Android’s built-in security mechanisms and the user who wants more freedom. Companies like Google and application developers expect their code to run on a trustworthy device and will only provide their services on such devices.

      Fairphone has made the conscious choice not to offer an option to root the device on its Google-services enabled software.

      On the Fairphone 2, Jan 2016