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Would they though? I only skimmed the bill text, but I think it might be hard to determine who is the "OS provider", who is the "store" and who the "developers" are in the case of FOSS.
It doesn't require a numerical age but rather an "age bracket" that the user provides during setup (<13, 13-16, 16-18, 18+) which must be "made available" to the "store" and the store must have a mechanism for picking up that "age signal" (lol).
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, (and ianal) but the language seems incredibly loose. I would not be surprised if this thing gets poked full of holes and worked around (if it doesn't end up being tied up in court first.)
It would be hilarious if distros could just provide age bracketed ISO downloads for the under 18 brackets and say that the download of an ISO is part of the setup.