[TOS Violation] them.
[TOS Violation] them.
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Text of S. 5090 (govtrack.us)
Four senators want every phone and computer sold in America to demand your date of birth before it will work for you. A Linux developer has already published the script that tears it out, under his real name, with an invitation to sue him.
The bill is S. 5090, filed July 22 by Andy Kim, Cynthia Lummis, Adam Schiff, and John Barrasso. Two Democrats and two Republicans. It puts an age prompt inside the setup of every operating system in the country. A covered device is any general-purpose computer, so this reaches the phone in your pocket, the laptop on your desk, the console under your television. Accounts you already hold get swept in the day it takes effect...
[Source](https://x.com/hostis_black/status/2084697725988212791)
[Text of S. 5090](https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s5090/text)
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Four senators want every phone and computer sold in America to demand your date of birth before it will work for you. A Linux developer has already published the script that tears it out, under his real name, with an invitation to sue him.
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The bill is S. 5090, filed July 22 by Andy Kim, Cynthia Lummis, Adam Schiff, and John Barrasso. Two Democrats and two Republicans. It puts an age prompt inside the setup of every operating system in the country. A covered device is any general-purpose computer, so this reaches the phone in your pocket, the laptop on your desk, the console under your television. Accounts you already hold get swept in the day it takes effect...
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