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Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S. (linuxiac.com)
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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 34 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

It feels like a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington display would solve this.

Just bring everything that has an operating system in it into the room. Cars, boats, planes, construction equipment, tractors, factories, knock off game consoles, literally every server on the internet.

Show them the ridiculousness of this and maybe we’ll get dragged out by police and charged with contempt of congress

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Don't give them even better ideas. To you it sounds ridiculous, to them it sounds like "we can ban people we don't like from using modern technology by invalidating their age verification"

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Go ahead and ban the people who are literally running the infrastructure they’re using

Will the sysadmins in Congress need to verify their age to use a server?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Will the sysadmins in Congress need to verify their age to use a server?

Yes. Yes, they will.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

“Sorry, no email for your octogenarian Senator. TrumpID is down”