Virtual Newsletter about Software Freedom

Febuary 27, 2026

Age Verification for Operating Systems
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I've heard a story of how age verification is coming to operating systems.
This is required by a new California law.

Now, some OSes are already taking action by blocking people in California from using it.
But I don't think this is something to worry about at all.

The problem with this is that free software is not affected.
There's no way to enforce this on free software operating systems.

An example, FreeDOS.
FreeDOS has no internet connection and no multi-user system.
How are you supposed to use age verification?
There's not really a way.

That's why I doubt anybody will care.
It's unenforcable.
They're only doing this so that they can get Google, Apple, etc. to add age verification.

- NexusSfan

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