>The upcoming law mandates that OS providers and application developers implement age verification measures to protect minors online, which includes collecting age information during account setup and providing age bracket signals to devs when apps are downloaded.

>Of course, this is not only about Ubuntu, Fedora, or Linux Mint, as it would apply to all GNU/Linux distributions, desktop environments, and application hubs lke Flathub or Snap Store, which will have to comply with the upcoming law in the near future in some way, especially since similar laws have already been proposed in other US states, including New York and Colorado.

So not even installing gentoo will bypass this? I'm not in California, or the UK, but I have no doubt laws like these will be coming to my area soon. I want to be prepared for when they arrive. Sure if the service refuses to comply and just doesn't serve areas with these laws, I can set my VPN to a country that doesn't have these laws... until they ban VPNs, because of course that will be the next step.

Is there some kind of OS that will never, ever comply with this type of shit? How would something like TailsOS handle this? Are we soon going to have black market operating systems? That sounds like some kind of cyberpunk dystopia, except really, really gay!

When all teh internets are tracked and monitored, we'll be back to dial-up speeds because we'll have to do everything over the Tor network. At least I won't be spending all day watching videos anymore...

Seriously though, what do we do?

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-fedora-linux-mint-eye-age-verification-amid-california-law-backlash