--- title: Christine Lemmer-Webber: "Well this is truly bad. US nat…" description: A Mastodon thread reacting to a proposed US national bill requiring OS-level age verification. The author and commenters express alarm about privacy... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/christine-lemmer-webber-well-this-is-truly-bad-us-nat--bequk9lkn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Christine Lemmer-Webber: "Well this is truly bad. US nat…" | daily.dev og:description: A Mastodon thread reacting to a proposed US national bill requiring OS-level age verification. The author and commenters express alarm about privacy... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/christine-lemmer-webber-well-this-is-truly-bad-us-nat--bequk9lkn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/beqUK9LkN.png og:image:alt: Christine Lemmer-Webber: "Well this is truly bad. US nat…" og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Christine Lemmer-Webber: "Well this is truly bad. US nat…" **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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