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The bill requires an operating system provider to:
  • Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date or age of the user of that device to provide a signal regarding the user's age bracket (age signal) to applications available in a covered application store;
  • Provide an application developer (developer) that requests an age signal, with respect to a particular user, the technical ability to call an age signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, the user's age-bracket data; and
  • Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with the bill. An operating system provider shall not share an age signal with a third party for a purpose not required by the bill
A person that violates the bill must pay a civil penalty of not more than $2,500 for each minor affected by each negligent violation or not more than $7,500 for each minor affected by each intentional violation. The penalty is assessed and recovered in a civil action brought by the attorney general.

This is stupid. I doubt this bill will pass. But one of these days, sooner rather than later, laws like this will be passed in your jurisdiction. The only solution is to learn how to use tools that will help you evade such authoritarianism.

This is so dystopian man, it's beyond my ability to even comprehend.

When I read the post title at first, I thought it was a law about how devices need to have verifiable age so you can't scam people into buying older hardware but selling it as new. Haha.

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True and Bitcoin is one of the tools we can use.

But currently the BTC/LN is still needing a lot more effort to grow and develop strength, reliability and resilience.

How can we help build the strength and reliability of the LN?

Use LN!

Everytime you use LN to send sats the LN grows stronger!

One very easy way you can support the LN (and Stacker News) is to attach sending and receiving wallets...then everytime you transact here you will be using sats via the LN and building a stronger censorship resistant LN.

Do it today and be part of the solution to creeping state censorship!

Then you can show your attached LN wallets with pride and the Horse and Gun emojis next to your nym.

Lets do this and resist state over reach and erosion of our freedoms.

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