While there are some enforcement questions here, especially around non commercial OSes, most of your reactions are clearly based on the headline alone.
It defines operating system in the law. This wouldn’t apply to embedded systems and WiFi routers and traffic lights and all those things. It applies to operating systems that work with associated app stores on general purpose computers or mobile phones or game consoles. That’s it.
Enforcement applies as civil fines per-child usage. So no suppression of speech by banning distribution.
(Also it’s not age verification really, it’s just a prompt that asks for your age to share as a system API for apps from above app store, no verification required)
It defines operating system in the law. This wouldn’t apply to embedded systems and WiFi routers and traffic lights and all those things. It applies to operating systems that work with associated app stores on general purpose computers or mobile phones or game consoles. That’s it.
Enforcement applies as civil fines per-child usage. So no suppression of speech by banning distribution.
(Also it’s not age verification really, it’s just a prompt that asks for your age to share as a system API for apps from above app store, no verification required)