Could these devices be used to, say, teach coding to kids? Or network to let kids with these devices chat with one another? Or play games?

I mean, you give it to a child, and then what does the child do with it?

Civil disobedience works by provoking a disproportionate, generally violent, government response against peaceful acts of protest - think of cops killing civil rights protesters in the '60s, or ICE killing civil rights protesters earlier this year.

You give this device to a child, the child doesn’t have anything to use it for it, the child shoves it in a drawer and forgets about it. And the government of California ignores it because it’s a petty technical violation of the law that doesn’t matter.

Now, you give these devices to kids, and kids actually use them to access the internet without age restrictions, that gets closer to actual functional civil disobedience. “We’re distributing tiny free Linux computers to teach poor kids to code and the government is all up in our privacy” lol.