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California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The law was designed this way specifically so that people won’t fight it as hard because it doesn’t provide any verification requirements. That bill would come later once the outrage over this has waned and the age gating becomes normalized in the local culture so that people just shrug off the verification requirement in the future.

They’re not wasting any time or money, they're just playing the long game.