Illinois HB5511 Puts Operating Systems — Including Linux Distributions — on the Hook for Age Verification
Linux Stans / Hacker News·low signal
A community analysis of Illinois HB5511 argues the law's age-verification duty attaches at the operating-system layer rather than the app or site layer, which would sweep in Linux distributions that have no commercial entity to comply. It hit 324 points and 458 comments on HN, one of the highest comment-to-point ratios on the front page, with the thread contesting both the legal reading and what compliance could even mean for a volunteer-maintained distro. Single-source analysis of a statute rather than reporting on enforcement, so weigh it accordingly.