I would say that they are preventing you from discovering that you can get bitcoin without having to give your documents, with the lightning network
If you buy KYC bitcoin on an exchange and then move it into a lightning channel, then that is now a KYC channel. You can do all the transactions you want on that channel, but when you or the other party eventually closes the channel, your balance goes right back to the same KYC address you used to fund the lightning channel.
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