> The bill’s own text caps penalties at $7,500 per affected child.

If the distro does not ship with any hardware, it could only be attained via download? So how would this imperil Linux distros?

Not to defend the law, it's comically pointless. Conservative states demanding ID verification for anything 'pornographic' and progressive ones trying to limit anyone under 18 from having any social media access at all. Clownish.