Comment by hedora

After looking at the California bill a bit, I'm equally worried about the implications for application developers as I am for the implications for OS developers.

It says apps must use the age signal as proof the user is a minor, and then behave according to all California laws regarding that. (I'm not a lawyer, but that's my read.)

So, does this apply to applications that run locally? What if an under 13 year old tries to read a text file with lots of swear words or ascii b00bs? Does emacs need to stop them? cat? xterm?