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Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well. (www.govtrack.us)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

they have a 180 day period to define the regulation and a year for it to be contacted and implemented.

This has a familiar smell. The 3d printer "gun printing prevention" bill(s) that are floating around have the same "we'll figure out the actual law after the bill is approved." And here I thought that punting congressional authority to executive agencies was bad. Now they're not writing laws, but instead, blank checks for vague things within even more vague legal outlines.

In a more general sense, it also resembles the work being done to level this requirement at online services as well.

Ultimately, the only way to really enforce any sort of age verification system is to force all content providers to have an age verification step.

My biggest fear here is that this will have teeth, and will be crafted so that the only feasible way to make it work is to be 100% cloud connected behind federally approved vendors (e.g. Apple and Microsoft).