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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech
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“The investigation by GitHub user “upper-up” traces funding through organizations like the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA), which launched December 18, 2024, and testified for Utah’s SB-142 just days later. Bloomberg and Deseret News reported Meta’s backing of DCA, part of a $70 million fragmented super PAC strategy designed to evade FEC tracking. Traditional election spending disclosure requirements don’t apply to this fragmented approach.”
Man that site is full of shit ads.
Can somebody please eli5 or eli12 me this?
ikiddMeta is funding extensive lobbying efforts to put age verification on the Apple/Google/Microsoft’s plate at an OS level instead of owning up to their dark patterns and doing it instead. Linux and all other OS operating systems will be caught in the crossfire.
And anyone that uses a Meta product has shit for brains.
undefinedAnd anyone that uses a Meta product has shit for brains.
Amen
The actual Reddit post.
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.
New post and research at https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rtd51g/update_i_pulled_irs_filings_for_the_org_that/
Website: https://tboteproject.com/
Support Findings: https://tboteproject.com/donate/
Repository: https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings
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hoshikarakitaridiaThat makes a lot of sense and that pisses me off.
We’re doing big brother for fun now because it gets some people some money.
Every one of those politicians takes the money not realizing that they will suffer just like everyone else. The more cunning they feel, the more susceptible they are to the same data profiling and manipulation.
Capitalism and exponential growth is not sustainable any other way. We’ve simply run our ethical and legal ways to drive more sales. What’s left is unethical stuff, or moving the goal post for what is legal.
We need to either implement a new system, or suffer the consequences.
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Confusing title: There was no other “who” behind it. It was Meta. They tried to hide their lobbying through other shell orgs.
Scooby-Doo unmasking scene
Old man Zuck!?
“And I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for the mountains of obvious clues strewn all over the place!”
It’s also a useless article. It barely covers what it claims to, but immediately moves on to “What ‘Get Age Category API’ Really Means for Your Device”
The Reddit post is here and actually has details.
They must be really big fans of that “We hold these truths to be self evident” line.
Good read and some action points suggested for those in key states.
Surprised there is not dupe posted here, I know fedi does not have such a large audience in terms of distribution but it’s a less corrupt place to have threads up and stable.
There is, and as far as I read the user here did more investigation further than Reddit. I’m going to sleep so I’m not going to bother looking for it but it was just the other day.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.