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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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by 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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[+] -10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

God some of you people are stupid.

The whole point of free speech is that it is free. If you need to hide anonymously, then it's not free, it's simply bypassing censorship.

Suppressing online anonymity is very problematic, but free speech is absolutely not one of them.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Free speech as a right is an ideal. In practice, any given government of a country that purports to grant its citizens freedom of speech will have types of speech that it wants to censor (despite its legality) and will use whatever means available to subvert that right. As such, speech is only free insofar as it can be protected. Online anonymity is one such protection.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Oh so your argument is that people are still free to speak, just not on online platforms.

    Yeah I'm not going to take the time to break your argument down; it's fucking dumb, do some reflecting.

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