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So we write a JS library that you can pull in with your favorite client-side JS package manager that pretends to do ID and face scanning, but just green-lights everything. It tells the user "ok, look at your screen and 3... 2... 1... ok, we got your face scan now hold your ID up to the screen and 3... 2... 1... yup, you're 100% over 18 all right, yessirree." And we only admit it's not actually doing shit in the fine fine print. And anyone can lock their content behind that and if the state of Mississippi or whoever comes after the website admin, the website has plausible deniability. "It's whaaaaaat? I was scammed? Really? It doesn't actually verify? Oh, well, I'm so very sorry Mr. state prosecutor sir, I never realized. I'll get that fixed right up. Wouldn't want innocent seventeen-and-a-half-year-olds exposed to any mention of... whispers: nudity."