The Brazilian law, passed in September of last year, requires both online service providers and "terminal operating systems" to provide secure, auditable age verification. It is from a technical standpoint presumably not legal to install an arbitrary Linux distro in Brazil, but one can imagine a list of approved distros that meet government standards. For example, Red Hat and Ubuntu might implement age verification for the Brazilian market and be cleared for use in Brazil.
The real issue starts when OEMs, in order to comply with laws of this type, start releasing machines with locked-down boot firmware that cannot run any but an approved operating system.
bitwize|8 days ago
The real issue starts when OEMs, in order to comply with laws of this type, start releasing machines with locked-down boot firmware that cannot run any but an approved operating system.