Christine Lemmer-Webber: "Well this is truly bad. US nat…"

A Mastodon thread reacting to a proposed US national bill requiring OS-level age verification. The author and commenters express alarm about privacy implications, potential surveillance, and the threat to open-source operating systems like Linux and BSD that cannot comply. Speculation runs rampant about who is lobbying for the bill, with candidates including Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Cloudflare, and anti-LGBTQ organizations. Comparisons are drawn to the EU's Chat Control legislation. Commenters warn the bill could effectively outlaw non-commercial OSes and enable mass data collection tied to real identities.