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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 day ago by ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61071136

Apparently this will include Linux...

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[โ€“] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 24 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Read the legislation. It's not just operating systems, its applications as well! All applications, there are no exceptions. Everything from GIMP to the EHR your Doctor uses to a custom Open Claude bot on Github. ALL of them.

[โ€“] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Good thing this will be unenforceable for open source software, or at least things can be forked if they are maintained by bigger companies that need to comply.