New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages

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26. This idea is so much bullshit

That a Democrat is a sponsor on this crap shows how bad some in our party are (Fetterman cough cough)

The only ways this can happen is by forcing it at hardware levels or at entries to the Internet.

At the hardware level by introducing into the Bios a age verification prompt to start the computer OS. The Internet Open Source community will immediately work around it with Open Source Bios replacements, which BTW already exist. The response to that will be to try to force hardware manufacturers to block access to the Bios which will then lead to consumers being unable to easily install firmware updates to computer systems and devices. All eventually leading to a huge backlash by unhappy consumers and a growth of Open Source hardware alternatives and Bios replacements.

At the ISP level by forcing users in this country to use a login prompt before entering the Internet. Trying to mandate that will obsolete every firewall/router currently in use and cause havoc with manufacturers which may partly explain the recent effort by the Trump administration to block foreign made firewall/routers.

In any event what this really is underneath is an move towards total censorship and a loss of personal freedoms for the average computer user.

Its bullshit.

Its a very good time for those freedom loving users of computers and the Internet to make the move to Linux and Open Source. I guarantee you that the cowardly heads of Microsoft and Apple and computer hardware manufacturers will grovel at the feet of fucking Trump and throw money at him just like the heads of Facebook and Amazon did earlier.