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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by cm0002 to c/linux@programming.dev

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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And non-commercial distros?

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Depends if their non-profit is Californian or how deeply the mechanism is embedded into their base distro (if applicable).
If 0x0@infosec.pub is right and it's done through a simple addition to adduser (and the GUIs) every distro that doesn't actively patch against it, would get it upstream.