Parents Decide Act: Mandatory Age Verification for Operating Systems

🔗 https://lustra.news/en/us-congress/119/legislations/119_HR_8250/

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u/PixelPioneer • 1 mo ago

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Mandatory age verification for *operating systems*? Are these politicians actually serious? Do they have any idea how technically impossible, privacy-invasive, and utterly useless this would be? My computer won't boot until I show my ID?

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u/NightOwlDev • 1 mo ago

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Right? Imagine trying to get Linux distros or even old legacy systems to implement that. 'Welcome to Windows 95, please verify your age.' Absolute joke.

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u/DataDrifter_01 • 1 mo ago

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This is just normalizing digital IDs at a fundamental level. It's not about 'parental control,' it's about control over us. Every single click tracked.

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u/code_monkey_xOP • 1 mo ago

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Oh good, another bill written by someone who thinks the internet is a series of tubes.

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