One comment made me think of a work-around:
Register the OS maintainers as "religious" organizations in the US. Religious organizations have exemptions to a number of laws. Age verification of "church materials" is likely illegal, under freedom of speech laws.
Just a thought.
Kinene⭐🐻
npub182…lljts
2026-04-08 18:38:15 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…d9se
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