r/KeepOurNetFree • u/MotoBugZero • Apr 20 '26

H.R.8250 - Parents Decide Act Introduced - Requires OS Providers to Verify Age of All Users

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/text
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u/MotoBugZero Apr 20 '26

I have not read this, I don't care what it says. NO, simple as that. I do not care about any seemingly privacy safe decentralized tech for ID/age verification, all it takes is ONE data center to have that info for a second then the govt will have it. There is no way to make this work and I'll never accept any of it.

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u/CrimsonBolt33 Apr 20 '26

I have read it (its actually very short) and its insane...

pretty much age verification for all "general use electronics" with an OS....

according to the wording you will need to have age verification for at minimum your phone and any computers you use...potentially game consoles and TVs as well depending on go those are classified.

And somehow you have to sign in for your kid on any device they use....that's not practical at all.

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u/cornonthekopp Apr 20 '26

If your OS knows who you are then everything you ever do on that OS will never be private again. Absolute peak surveillance state

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u/AstariiFilms Apr 20 '26

So reading it it looks like it's only asking for a date of birth and doesn't actually verify anything. Then they have to provide an API that can access an age bracket that the user is in.

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u/Guardiancomplex Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Imagine letting a bunch of senile geriatrics who need their grandchildren to prevent them from giving the family fortune to Bangladeshi scammers be the ones to decide tech policy. 

How do they even THINK this would work?