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California passes law requiring age verification checks for all operating systems | Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online (www.gov.ca.gov)

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AB-1043 "Age verification signals: software applications and online services."

Text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

Other info https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

California AB 1043 signed. Mandatory os-level, device-level, app store, and even developer-required age verification for all computing devices.

Edit: altered title from "ID check" to "Age Verification check"

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 153 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Good luck enforcing that on Linux.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 116 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That's probably the point.

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft and Google lobbied for this to prevent open source from encroaching on their terf

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 37 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Likely yes, though it won't matter to me. I'll recompile from suitably modified source code if it comes to that.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They might try to stop Linux from booting at all with locked bootloaders.

[–] Zeon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Libreboot.org

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 21 hours ago

that would basically destroy the internet considering how many servers - including microsofts own sites - run on linux

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would be the point at which things - expensive, crucial things - would start catching on fire for reasons that has nothing to do with anything I might be doing.

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Like what? I believe you but I'm interested in the implications of this bill

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