I think Nostr is uniquely immune to these laws … because accounts and content (can be) 💯controlled by users and because individual services are able to be distributed across many apps.
Social apps can start by offloading key generation and management to designated apps that do only this, and nothing else.
SECTION 2.a > “Digital service" means a website, an application, a program, or software that collects or processes personal identifying information with Internet connectivity.”
SECTION 4.1 > “A digital service provider may not enter into an agreement with a person to CREATE AN ACCOUNT with a digital service unless the person has registered the person's age with the digital service provider.”
https://legiscan.com/MS/text/HB1126/id/2988284
Being open source is not good enough. Nostr clients need to ACTUALLY be non-custodial. We need BETTER tools for users to “login”.
NSEC login for “native apps” is going to bite us in the ass, once the lawyers start paying attention.
Separation of concern is the only sustainable solution (using dedicated signing apps and services that do NOT otherwise process or store event data).
We need better browser extensions and native signing apps that WORK … especially on mobile platforms.
#nostrdev #scalenostr
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