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Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well. (www.govtrack.us)
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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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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Does me tapping my order into a self-service kiosk at a restaurant count as "using" the operating system that it is running on?

Like, I feel like this is going to be really difficult to enforce, and big business might actually push back against it if they think it will hurt their bottom line, but my god can we stop with this nanny state internet surveillance bullshit already? The government is too stupid to actually protect anyone with this dumb law because there will always be loopholes and workarounds.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You're missing the point.

1.Few will work around it, which will make anyone working around it de facto suspicious.

2.That law can also be weaponized as an intended side effect: all dictatures have vague un-enforcable laws for the sole purpose of making sure anyone and everyone is somewhat guilty of something. That eases considerably arbitrary arrests: there WAS a lawful reason, every single time!

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh no, those subtleties aren't lost on me, I'm just lamenting that literally anyone is falling for this scheme. Even if this would be technically unenforceable it's still 1000% bad and should never even be in congress. I hate that every few years some draconian bullshit like this pops up and we need to muster all of our collective will to raise awareness and fight it. Someone else said it best in the thread - we need to win every time, but they only need to win once.