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California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Linux being a kernel is hardly relevant though. The law lies the responsibility at the "operating system providers", looking at the definition in the article that would be the developers/organisation behind the individual distributions. Politicians don't care if each distro comes up with their own solution or gets built-in to the kernel.

But personally I think they all just give this law the finger, put a 'not for use in California' in their licenses and forget about this brainfart.