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Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:

Any truth in the rumour that California has just passed a law that
would make Linux illegal there?

ASFAIK it is a false rumor. My guess what you heard was
Age Validation:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/

Is California run by Maga now?

The age verification law is a response to "protect the children"
so it is supported by both the GOP and Democrats.

I heard these laws are being funded by Meta so Meta can hand the cost
of Age Verification to the OS.
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In article <9v680l5s582c44d6dh642puj067dmtscs4@4ax.com>,
Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
...

What about this, then?

"A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification
requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The
language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does not restrict its
requirements to proprietary or commercial operating systems; projects

This has all been hashed out many times in many different forums.

There really is nothing to fear here.

It all boils down to one or more of the following interpretations:

1) It will be no big deal for Linux to comply, should it (eventually)
prove necessary to do so. They will comply in the same way as the
other OSes will do.

2) No OS can actually age-verify the user. All they can do is report
what the user tells them (*). Doesn't matter if you are MS, Apple,
Google or Debian.

3) It (the law) is actually a Good Thing, for some people, while being
irrelevant to the rest of us. In fact, this law is a thing for
paranoid parents to control their kids, should they (the parents) be of
such a mindset. Needless to say, this is irrelevant to me (and, I
would imagine, to most of you reading this).

4) The idea of the OS tracking this info (as best as it can) is
actually not bad (IMHO).

(*) Given current levels of technology. Someday, I suppose you will have
your brain hard-wired to the computer and it will then be able to actually determine your real chronological age (**).

(**) But then of course some people will come and tell us that they
"identify" as being 25.

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On Wed, 13 May 2026 13:12:17 -0000 (UTC), Kenny McCormack wrote:

(*) Given current levels of technology. Someday, I suppose you will
have your brain hard-wired to the computer and it will then be able to actually determine your real chronological age (**).

Supposedly some kids have fooled the facial recognition approach by
borrowing their sister's eyebrow pencil and drawing a mustache.
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