IDE bans kids?

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Zed editor sent an email about a privacy policy change that included a line saying users must be 18 or older to use Zed. This caused confusion online, but Zed clarified the age restriction only applies to its AI-enabled SaaS features, not the base IDE. The restriction stems from children's data privacy laws like COPPA and various US state laws. The broader discussion covers how individual states (particularly California) can pass laws that end up affecting software globally, including a California law requiring age verification fields in operating system account setup — even for Linux — though notably no actual ID verification is required, just an age input box.

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