The California bill was approved and signed into law back in October:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
But hasn’t taken effect yet:
This bill, beginning January 1, 2027, would require, […]
The only one apparently eager to implement this is the dylanmtaylor Github user, who has created PR’s for systemd, archinstall, and Ubuntu. Maybe more.
Its only one state, the rest of the world for now still have some fucking sense. If anything its disproportionate to appease a local government with global systems, whats next? Appease North Korea? Or Putin? Block Linux from working in Ukraine? How fucking insane is this dipshit to add changes to a global product for a thing that affects only 40m people out of fucking billions?
Brazil has something similar. Other US states are working on it. And the UK, some EU countries, Australia and others are pushing for the same. This won’t be just California for long: it’s a worldwide push to make it impossible to do anything involving a computer without first disclosing your real identity to the authorities.
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/online-age-verification-a-complete-global-timeline