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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 1 points 3 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 2 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.