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California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Archr@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Are they? The law effectively only applies penalties to the parents. If you have not ready the law I highly recommend it. It is very short and says nothing about actually verifying the age of the user. It is equivalent of entering your age on steam or the "are you 18+" questions.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The law effectively only applies penalties to the parents.

This applies penalties to far more than the parents. If I provide an operating system to a California parent, and my operating system does not include this "signal" apparatus, I can be fined $7500 every time a kid launches an application on my OS, for my deliberate decision not to implement their asinine horseshit.

[–] Archr@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean yea. If you don't make a good faith effort to implement this age attestation page and api to allow apps to pull from it. Then yes. You would be liable.

You could of course decide to not provide to residents of California and Colorado. No one is forcing you to provide for either of these states.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

And if I make a good faith effort, but it doesn't work right, that's a $2000 penalty. Every time that snot-nosed, unsupervised kid opens an app.

You could of course decide to not provide to residents of California and Colorado.

Yes, that's exactly what Microsoft and Google want. They don't want my FOSS OS competing with their commercial offerings.