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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 6 months ago by 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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[–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Steam believes I'm somewhere between 62 and 126 years old. I don't think Steam's birthday gate is going to qualify as age verification

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago

    This bill requires the OS to ask you for your birth date, explicitly the birth date. That's all the age verification it requires. So I'm not sure how that's "not going to qualify as age verification". Why would the very method specified in the bill not count? There's no requirement to use other methods to verify the age you're given. The user just selects their birth date freely and the OS accepts it and that's it if they're not underage.

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