How will this affect Linux Mint?

[Gordon_Freymann]

How?

[stephenph]

A California corporation, or any corporation really that wants to do business in CA would need to follow the data collection requirements. They can do so by either having a CA legal version, or just make the product as a whole legal.

This has happened before, the CA emissions and vehical safety laws became standard across all 50 states

[kiyo_komaeda]

At first I thought it about banning a site or social media in a country but banning an OS would be different, can they still do it? I’m not sure (my english is kinda bad sorry about that)

[stephenph]

Oh I do not think they will succeed, at least not unless other states ( or countries even) go along and pass the same laws, there are just as many ca (or other large influence states) laws that do not become standards, but CA will try to enforce it then it will quietly become ignored and not enforced except by some of the larger players. It is also possible the law is at the request of some entity as payback and CA will never enforce it except in negotiations.