California users practice penmanship in preparation to expected return to paper and pen.
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Even if they could enforce it which I highly doubt, this law is clearly a "Fuck you and your free software".
Like if a "too young" user have the skills to update the OS to change or even remove the age verification, who will be responsible? Yeah I don't know either, but both will be bad.
Everyone not in California: mutes California
This is stupid and a waste of my time.
Time for US-based linux distros to move their servers elsewhere (if they haven't already).
Its parents that are pushing for this stupid shit. I hate that the majority of voters want to implement robust age verification.
Is it? Honestly I think it's just astroturfed. The entire imperial core suddenly got obsessed with regulating the internet after young people started waking up to the realities of the genocide in gaza.