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California passes law requiring ID 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.

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good luck enforcing that on Linux.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 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 0 points 1 month ago (1 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 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zeon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Libreboot.org

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's precedent that source code is protected speech, so maybe Gentoo is about to become a lot more popular.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 points 1 month ago

And who doesn't enjoy using 90% of their system resources to compile the 10% remainder all the time?