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 Nostr clients, what’s your plan to comply with the newly proposed Trump’s revision of section 230? We, at nostr.build, already provide you with the headers suggesting if the media is safe for general audience. Are you planning to utilize it to allow users to consent and opt in into viewing it f they are above the age of 18y? Please do not suggest we post the info to the relay, since it is extra step for you and us that slows things down and makes it unreliable. HTTP headers are there and you get them when you fetch the media, all you need is to read them and act accordingly. 🫡 
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 @Sedd I know you guys can do it in record time. If you need more info, ping me (DM) 
 This actually really interesting 🧐. We might discuss this and see if can fit it in our schedule soon. Appreciate the heads up 🙏 
 Great! You’ll have to do it at least next year (beginning). If you need specific details, please ask 🫡 
 I will surely get back to you on this 🫡 
 I'm not a dev, much less a nostr dev, so forgive the unsolicited intrusion. But it's likely that a third party vendor will develop a age verification service if one hasn't already available. Using such a service would insulate nostr client devs from liabilities and provide a layer of removal protection for user anonymity. 

On the other hand maybe I'm taking out of my ass.  
 With the nature of Nostr protocol, it is close to impossible to guard signups (there is none, just random bytes are your keys) Clients on the other hand can provide some level of filtering together with relays 🫡🫂(welcome) 
 It is my thinking that a third party age verification service would offer an API or another interface between itself and nostr clients to provide the verification. After all, Alby currently provides account authentication. I'm assuming that a nostr account verification could include age verification to affect the client's settings on what the account is permitted to access.