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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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 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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[–] ranoss@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It’s worth writing your reps!! There’s usually an easy way to contact them via their website

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you go to house.gov they let you look up your rep by zip code. I’d point out that the data is almost certain to be subjected to a breach, which would expose way more sensitive data than usual to whoever wanted it.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All my reps are Republican. They’ll throw my letters in the trash.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Start looking up freely available information about them on the internet and sending that to them. At some point they will start to recognize that privacy is important.

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[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why are they pushing Linux so hard? Many here are already on it. (sarcasm aside, ye this is not great news.)

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use 9, so this won't affect me.

But I'm more than willing to start smashing kneecaps if it comes to it.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I misread this as "I am 9".

And I thought, "well, I've got bad news for you, pal".

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[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 7 points 3 months ago

I don't wish to live on this planet anymore :/

[–] musket528@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

this is insane, but i don't quite understand how will it be pushed on independent linux distros.

even if it'll be magically pushed into linux kernel, mfs will just create a fork without that shit... no?

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[–] musket528@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

glad that i read physical books and write to physical notebooks. moving to cave next week.

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[–] eronth@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What OSs are good to fork or download before this goes live?

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[–] bibbasa@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

as if this congress could pass anything right now.

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