I'm not sure if that law will pass/has passed, but I wonder how it affects embed systems, vending machines, etc, since all of them have OS in them. For Linux this can already be implemented by using groups for age so they can claim the OS already offers this and be done, then it's up to the apps to query it and most apps wouldn't need to so that's that.

Just do what MidnightBDS did. MidnightBSD has decided to change its license to prohibit use in California. There, problem sorted. Anyone in California wanting MBDS can simply use a vpn. BTW, MBDS is one of those happy kind of discoveries (serendipity?) I’ve just made. Check them out.

Just think about the children™ bro. We are doing everything to save the children™ bro. Trust me bro.

Just add a "Not To Be Used In California" note.

If - yep, a VERY big If - that happened it would at least trigger a larger discussion. At the moment, no-one in the general public knows about this erosion of privacy.

I didn't realize it at first, but Pornhub has also been requesting device based age verification legislation.

Each app needs to check age? So like every one of the hundred windows processes need to do this?

Linux will not care, if some corporate distros sell out, no matter. Just spin up any other million distros which are not [redacted]. Or just gentoo it.

Every app does not need to check your birth date. An app will be able to query if the user is within one of a few broad ranges of age (e.g. under 18), but an app only has to do that if it needs to comply with some other legislation.

No, it's not.

In my country, Brazil, on March 17 the age verification will be law on every OS… so technically Linux will be “illegal” too :(

Protecc the children protecc the children protect the ped...

LOL. no. it fucking is not.