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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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[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 hours ago

Canadian here. If I can't find a Linux distro that will not comply with this bullshit law, I'll use my GrapheneOS phone and nothing else. Wouldn't be the first time in my life I used a phone for everything.

[-] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Artix straight-up refused, and I presume antiX's general stance is against age-gating as they proudly state their anti-fascist stance in their tagline, and as far as I'm aware Devuan is against age-gating as well. I also can assume Parabola and Hyperbola are against this as well.

And then of course Ageless is protestware.

Adenix also refused.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 points 2 hours ago

It's fucking Linux.

If you really wanted to, you could make a fork of your favorite distro and remove the age-gating shit yourself.

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Wouldn’t GrapheneOS have the Linux kernel and therefor also the same age restrictions? Genuine question here.

[-] baronvonj@piefed.social 7 points 3 hours ago

The bill targets "operating system providers" and it's called GrapheneOS. So yes, they would be subject to this law if they are based in USA.

[-] degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 11 points 3 hours ago

They're based in Canada, and given their privacy-focused approach I can't imagine they'd implement such a feature.

[-] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

This would have to live at the distro level I believe, not at the kernel level

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Do you wipe your ass with that phone?

[-] fan0m@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Sometimes. Why?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

You wipe your ass with their phone?

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