California requires age verification on ALL OSes

[Terry Bowling]

Interesting thread regarding fedora's implementation and standardization.
I'll bet you a Coke it will be easy to bypass or disable.
Plus, most users HATE the idea of uploading any data or facts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/s/j00JErYw4Q


On Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 10:58 PM Joe Greene <volgclawtooth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let is not forget this therefore includes servers and server operating
> systems , thus making servers a legally false claim of the "operator"'s
> age. it must be tried in court as a first and fourth Ammendment violation
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 14:19 Bernie Hoefer <LUG-Member at themoreiknow.info>
> wrote:
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>> I've been both busy and lazy... hence the delay in replying!
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>> On 2026-02-28 17:15 UTC-05:00, David Spoelstra wrote:
>> ===
>> > BTW, this was driven by underage online gambling. There was a recent
>> > article (NYT?) where they exposed the problem. Data shows that
>> > "Roughly 70% of teens aged 12-17 have gambled online in the past
>> > year." and "Over 25% of high school students gamble frequently."
>> ===
>>
>> Let me guess:  some stupid parent gave their teenager a credit card or
>> some online payment system (like Apple Pay) and doesn't monitor their
>> child's transactions.  Now, because they cannot parent, the whole Internet
>> needs to lose their privacy.
>>
>> I am very ignorant of all of this, but doesn't one have to give one's
>> birth date to the credit card or online payment system?  So wouldn't the
>> `better` overreach of government be to have the payment processors block
>> payments if the item or service being purchased is not appropriate for the
>> card owner?
>>
>>
>> ===
>> > LOL, they obviously need to teach statistics in high school!
>> ===
>>
>> There are many topics they should teach but don't.  Personal finance
>> being at the top of the list, IMHO:  how loans and credit works, how to set
>> a budget, why you should plan for emergency expenditures, etc...
>>
>>
>> ===
>> > On a tangent, many years ago my computer graphics conference,
>> > SIGGRAPH, held our conference in Las Vegas.
>> ===
>> > We're all engineers and scientists and know that gambling is a
>> > losing bet, so no one gambled!
>> ===
>>
>> :-)
>>
>>
>> ===
>> > The> scary thing to me was all the data they collected on our
>> > attendees gambling!
>> ===
>>
>> 20 years ago there was a TV show called _Las Vegas_ where some of the
>> main characters worked in the security center of a casino.  While I'm sure
>> that the show overplayed the security aspect (like doing real-time facial
>> recognition taken from the feed of a security camera that is positioned 50
>> feet away) a bit, I probably still would be amazed at what a high-stakes
>> security center like that can do.
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