California requires age verification on ALL OSes

[Bernie Hoefer]

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On 28/02/2026 03.29 UTC-05:00, David Spoelstra wrote:
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> Will this kill any OS not backed by a company? Who will do the age 
> verification on the hundreds of Linux distros?
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I know.  Colorado lawmakers proposed a similar bill, based on California's law, late last week:

  Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level
  https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level

Apparently the proposed Colorado goes further in that it does not grandfather old operating systems in (11m10s):

  Colorado Wants to Age-verify Your Operating System
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdZlNqpFxTk

Crazy world we live in.  It is very, very strange that we've not heard operating system manufacturers (Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Windows, Apple, etc. etc.) releasing press releases about this.


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