You guys are asking the wrong questions.
How is Linux going to do this? There's no server for the os to send the information to report the age of its users, no way of forcing its user base to comply and no single person or entity to fine, arrest or otherwise force into compliance.
They made a law they cannot enforce.
That would be a completely unworkable law since devices may not even have internet connectivity, or a user interface. And even if they did, it would have a chilling effect on software development in California.
The headline is misleading. They are only required to ask how old you are and are not required to verify you aren't lying
Why not parents responsible for their own goddamn kids? Stop interfering with the rest of our privacy for this bullshit. Parental controls have existed for decades. Fucking use them.
No biggie. I got ready for this in minutes after hearing about it.
#!/usr/bin/env fish
read -P "Are you old enough? (yes/no) " input
if test "$input" = "yes" -o "$input" = "Yes"
echo "Proceeding..."
else
echo "You are not old enough. Exiting."
exit 1
end
... What? ... Why are you all looking at me like that?
Yes but Newsom says funny things about bad orange man, so he's got my vote.
Luckily this dogshit is completely unenforceable. It doesn't excuse the people who introduced this law, of course.
This is just another charge to add when someone is accused of a crime involving computers. It doesn't have to be a computer related crime but just be part of their property.
Considering the massive number of servers running Linux used in the industry, this sounds like a good way to kill the Tech Industry in California.
Effective date known yet?
January 1st 2027 per the bill text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
Will they patch useradd or adduser to support that?
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