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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-12T02:22:42.000Z",
  "site": "http://forum.palemoon.org",
  "tags": [
    "an idiotic bill",
    "Californian law"
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  "textContent": "Today, a friend brought to my awareness an idiotic bill proposed in New York’s legislature. Pertinent sections for us are quoted here, with emphasis added.\n\n>\n> 2. \"Age category\" shall mean data that a user is (a) under the age of thirteen years; (b) at least thirteen but under sixteen years; (c) at least sixteen but under eighteen years; or (d) at least eighteen years. […]\n> 5. \"Covered developer\" shall mean **a person who owns or controls a website** , online service, online application, mobile application, or portion thereof that is **accessed by a user in the state of New York**.\n> 6. \"Covered manufacturer\" shall mean a manufacturer of an internet-enabled device, an operating system provider, or an application store.\n> […] A covered manufacturer shall provide a covered developer with a digital signal indicating the age category of a user via a real-time application programming interface (API) upon receiving a request for such signal from such developer.\n> […] **All covered developers shall request an age category signal for a user from a covered manufacturer when such user downloads and launches such developer's website** , service, or application.\n> […] Whenever it appears to the attorney general, either upon complaint or otherwise, that **any person, within or outside the state** , has engaged in or is about to engage in any of the acts or practices stated to be unlawful in this article, the attorney general may bring an action or special proceeding in the name and on behalf of the people of the state of New York to enjoin any violation of this article…to obtain damages caused directly or indirectly by any such violation, to obtain civil penalties of up to ten thousand dollars per violation, and to obtain any such other and further relief as the court may deem proper, including preliminary relief.\n\nThe bill itself, like a similar, stupid Californian law which only treats operating systems, might also be of interest more generally in a discussion for the Windows 11 thread or perhaps a new one in the off-topic board, but this thread should be about bearings on this site in particular, at least at first. As presently written, the bill simply forgets that static, non-interactive sites, like Pale Moon excluding the board, even exist: ‘website’ is treated as synonymous with ‘remote application’, but prudence would dictate the most stupidly literal interpretation possible. Any webmaster with visitors in New York State would be liable, if I am reading this right, although in our case, there is nothing to launch, since again, we are not a remote application. What are we to do in the face of such a daft policy if it should become law?\n\n* * *",
  "title": "Forum and website • The site and an idiotic bill",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-12T02:22:42.000Z"
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