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The US state of Mississippi has an age verification law that requires social media platforms to identify the age of all users. Bluesky has refused and blocks users from connecting from Mississippi. Hereโ€™s the Bluesky story
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 Have anybody in the Nostr ecosystem considered this? Are clients doing KYC on users? Anyone blocking Mississippi?

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โ†ฉ replying to rabble
And FOSS is our own long arm back at the state. Running a relay is no different than running a btc node. The more folks run their own relay the strong nostr is for a state to take down. Apps/clients too are just going to be AI agents eventually (and hoepfully sooner than later). No state has the resources to stop this at scale.