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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by cm0002 to c/linux@programming.dev
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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 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.