> Instead children would own special devices that are locked down and tagged with a "underage" flag when interacting with online services, while adults could continue as normal.

California is mandating OSes provide ages to app stores, and HN lost their mind because it's a ban on Linux.

> California is mandating OSes provide ages to app stores,

They forgot to put in the provision which exempts apps which do not need an age rating? As in: everything os related.

Sounds like a good way to get rid of snap at least since that is where all the commercial bloat is located. Last time I did a fresh Debian install I do not remember installing any app from the os repository which would require age restrictions (afaik).