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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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[–] sudolinuxjunkie69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Computer code is a form of speech. It is mind-boggling to me that California wants to assert its rules over all FOSS software.

If California is able to do this, what stops them from next requiring Arch to be bundled with ID-checking Persona as part of a mandatory GUI installation?

Maybe Arkansas wants a mandatory "governemnt module" in Fedora to allow easy remote access?

Perhaps Dubai would like ProxMox to ping Dubai's government so they can create an IP registry of ProxMox users?

And since so many developers use github, will github just ban developers who don't comply?

I understand that such a rule could undermine Project 2025's objectives, but it is still a slippery slope.