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[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 35 points 4 hours ago

The only problem have with this is that it should only apply to commercial software (app stores and 0S). Libre/FOS software should not have to police ages on their app stores,

It's a bit like saying the only problem with the Titanic is the water inside.

The law is bad, whether it can be worse or not is just tangential. But still, this law as is applies to computers, phones... And nas, some routers, watches, advance calculators... As they all have OS and can install apps. As per app stores, guess what, thats the GNOME app store, but also flatpak, jellyfin (can install apps as plugins), pip, docker, git... And what about plain executables? Githut should ask for your age too to download artifacts?

Porn started with only age verification by the user as a prompt, and we see where that is going now.