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How would you write a law to make it illegal?

The better remedy is precisely what is occurring: someone calls the Emperor's bluff, and we all get on HN and engage in cheeky humor.

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False advertising?

How are you actually going to prove the state of a distributed system in an legally actionable way?

In the OP case, the evidence is not a problem, right? There's nothing specially about "legally actionable", you just need to convince a judge or jury that it happened, as with any other fact. In this case, with the JS code cited.

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