A federal bill sitting in the Senate Commerce Committee -- introduced by two Democrats and two Republicans -- would require every operating system on every general-purpose computer to gate use behind an account and a declared age. Its text carries no exemption for open-source, nonprofit, or small developers. GrapheneOS, the account-less privacy OS BL:UF profiled after a traveler's duress-wipe feature got him federally charged, has already told the identical state-level requirement it would rather leave a market than build the account system this bill demands.
    • red_green_black@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      And even if it was US based is FOSS software with plenty of forks.

      Literally the only way to enforce this is great firewall the United States, and honestly good luck convincing the oligarchs who profit from global markets to allow such a thing