US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/us-operating-system-age-verification-bill-parents-decide-act-gets-published/

[gamingonlinux@mastodon.social]

US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/us-operating-system-age-verification-bill-parents-decide-act-gets-published/

#Gaming #USA #PCGaming #US #AgeVerification #ParentsDecideAct

[dyrge@infosec.exchange]

@gamingonlinux The Endanger Children by Making Their Personal Information Easier to Obtain for Commercial Opportunities Act

Absolutely thrilled to think of the ways taxpayer money is going to be wasted trying to pass and enforce this.

[miawgogo@fedi.miawgogo.me]

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social wooof, that act name is a dog whistle and a half

[labtoast@social.nouveau.community]

@gamingonlinux welp. Time to call my district representative for the first time in my life. It ain't much, but it's what I can do.

[wpeckham@social.linux.pizza]

@gamingonlinux So if I understand this correctly, the politicians are requiring that every operating system be able to report to the predators whose accounts represent a vulnerable juvenile potential victim? And parents think this is a good idea?

[bennypl@defcon.social]

@gamingonlinux should be named "government decides act"
Because parents already have the tools for parental controls without this surveillance bs bill

[letsbeworms@brain.worm.pink]

@gamingonlinux

"the parent decide act"
*looks inside*
the government decides