The left is doing just about everything imaginable to shine a spotlight on its hypocrisy these days.

Every GOP effort (feckless as it may be) to pass voter ID has been met with swift condemnation by Democrats on Capitol Hill who insist some communities, particularly minorities, are simply incapable of obtaining identification.

But meanwhile, one Democratic lawmaker is rallying members of the party behind an Orwellian power-grab that would force anyone who wants to buy a new phone, which is practically everyone at this point, to produce an ID.

TheBlaze attempts to break down the logic:

The new bill, unassumingly named the Parents Decide Act, includes several key requirements that all platform holders would have to recognize if the bill passes. These include:

  • Strict guidelines that state OS platform holders must verify the age of every user when they set up a new device. The bill is clear that it’s not enough to have users self-report their date of birth and age; hard-proof verification is required.
  • Custom content controls that let parents set age-appropriate parameters on their children’s devices. This includes the ability to limit access to social media, apps, and even AI platforms.
  • A pathway to ensure that all apps installed on a device are tuned to adhere to the custom controls in the previous point. No workarounds or exceptions will be allowed.
  • A trusted multi-platform standard that bans children from accessing what the government labels “harmful” or “explicit” content on any device made by any OEM on any software platform. On the surface, this can include adult content and conversations with AI chatbots, although “harmful” or “hateful” speech has taken on different meanings to the left over the years, usually to describe speech that doesn’t align with their views.

To be clear, the Parents Decide Act would require these protections to be built directly into the software of every device — it would become a core feature within iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. There are questions as to how the government would enforce the bill on open-source Linux, but it will certainly try.

An array of MS NOW hosts and assorted knee-jerk leftists will certainly join in on the effort, but what about the vast numbers of Americans who are either too incompetent or too destitute to make it to the DMV?

Social media users had plenty of questions:

The bad news for those who are hoping someone will stand up against Big Brother-like mandates? As the libertarian-leaning team at Reason reported, this is a bipartisan effort:

The Parents Decide Act was introduced earlier this month by U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer,  a New Jersey Democrat. It’s co-sponsored by New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik.

Gottheimer and Stefanik’s bill defines operating system as “software that supports the basic functions of a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.”

It would mandate that any operating system provider “require any user of the operating system to provide the date of birth of the user” in order to set up an account or use the operating system. And “if the relevant user of the operating system is under 18 years of age, require a parent or legal guardian of the user to verify the date of birth of the user.”

It would also require operating systems to share “any information as is necessary…to verify the date of birth of a user” with app developers.

How exactly would people have to provide their dates of birth? How would things work when minors are concerned—would parents have to upload a copy of their children’s birth certificates, or would their word alone be enough? And how would parents have to prove they are the parents, or even prove that they are adults?

The Parents Decide Act does not answer any of these questions—and it would not require members of Congress to hash out any such details before passing this measure.

But regardless of one’s take on the merits of this proposal, the sheer hypocrisy on display by Democrats who applaud this but oppose voter ID is astounding.

Here’s some additional coverage of what’s in the bill:

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
 

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