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