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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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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

"Parents Decide Act"

Yet text of it has basically nothing about parents in it, just government data collection lol

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

As a parent I am deciding not to comply.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 27 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

that's just another American Value, naming bills as sarcastically and ironcally as possible

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

A tradition that started with bill of "rights."