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.
Remember when windows implemented a feature that took a screenshot of your PC every 5 seconds or whatever? Now they know exactly whose screenshots those are and basically surveille your PC use as if watching from behind your back? Yeah…we know what they want. They want to effectively disarm our ability to use computers to challenge them. God knows what they’re planning to implement after this goes through. It’s not just about the laws they’re passing, it’s about what those laws enable them to do. Sure windows rolled back that feature, but it’s still there. They didn’t remove the code, they just changed what triggers it and if the PC user knows or not.