New York Age Verification Bill Requires Anti-Circumvention Tech

Source: https://reclaimthenet.org/new-york-bill-would-force-age-id-checks-at-the-device-level

From the bill text:

1. "Age assurance" shall mean any method to reasonably determine the age category of a user, using methods that reasonably prevent against circumvention. Such method may include a method that meets the requirements of article forty-five of this chapter, or may be a method that is identified pursuant to new regulations promulgated by the attorney general consistent with section fifteen hundred forty-five of this article.

It's obviously not possible for any FOSS distribution to abide by this law, because the source code is licensed such that users always retain the right to both view and modify the source. What are the implications, if any?

Edit, official link to bill text: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8102/amendment/A

Edit 2: Please contact your representatives, everyone, and voice your concerns about age verification legislation. It doesn't do any good to sit back and do nothing, thinking that all this will simply pass, or that it won't affect us somehow. It also doesn't do any good to throw in the towel and give up, thinking that this issue is already a sure thing.

There are lots of bad bills moving through different legislatures all over the USA right now. If we do nothing, we can only blame ourselves. I have already contacted my own representatives, and I suggest that everyone else do the same, even if you don't currently live in a state where these bills are being pushed through. For more details about the current mountain of bills moving through Congress, please see here: https://www.badinternetbills.com/