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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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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This kinda seems like a roundabout way of avoiding government /corporate age verification laws? Like it doesn't require ID verification or biometrics and runs a local api to verify age.

Can someone smarter than me please explain if this is a good thing or not?

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm not saying I'm smarter than you but to me it looks like "Hey yeah we require age verification. So, anyway..."

A token easily bypassed "verification" law to set and forget. It's basically the same level of security corrently keeping teenage boys off of PornHub.