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Yes.
It's not that either, because it's literally just an "are you over 18? Yes / No"
There is no point in simply yes/no button as you said it, coz everyone can press yes and be done with it. No logic.
To emperor & OpaqueRegistrant ..this is a start.. bad things creep in slowly through what looks like useless features.. yes/no button. It is amended at a later date until it reaches the objective.. that would be full biometrics. With things like this there is an objective and the first introduction has little to do with the actual objective. Next year they will say whatever excuses
is needed to amend this law to real ID, then credit card, then a face scan, then a hash of your DNA. Of course it starts in California.
What stops them from just not complying?
Lawyers and lawsuits.
Even if youre a Linux distro without a company or not located anywhere near those states/countries?
Yep, unless you choose to prohibit people from those jurisdictions from using your product as MoonlightBSD has done.
Something to consider is the jurisdiction can be inserted into the product. How ? You start up some new body or agency and base it in CA , that body is a corp and responsible for the release of a product like an OS or kernel, it then requires it for everyone because the corp is based in CA.. If it doesn't make sense just look at the UK, they have passed laws for their residents but are enforcing it or trying to enforce on other countries.. Even if it isn't legally doable the big corp partners will do it anyway. So Apple, Linux, etc base themselves in CA and have to force the entire world to comply with CA laws to use their product, Its a theory and not bulletproof but things like this have already been tried. I don't think the corps or the govt care about the kids, this is another effort to get a real workd ID on the internet for the user.
A sexy orange prison jumpsuit
Smol smol smol
Only root can say that other users are above 18
adduser grandpa
upload passport
Not flip flopping, It was an just an exaggeration on an already ridiculous situation in the world.
How about this?
I will ensure that my replies will be dead on accurate and factual going forward with minimal to no exaggeration so that @TimboJones feels okay.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws
https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/
Why systemd is adding this optional date of birth thing, I thought only OS were asked to implement age verification!!
Because it's systemd.
Meta adopted CentOS Stream. Canonical tried to match Red Hat's 10 year lifecycle with a fraction of the revenue, quietly walked-back to 5 year + 5 year paid support lifecycles per Ubuntu Pro. Meta lobbyists put forth the bills to minimize exposure (meta overview).
I'm sure Red Hat, who has remained curiously quiet, had some dealing in this. Waiting to see how they respond, if at all, to changes.
There is already project for systemd without age verification. Lets se how it will go.