Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?
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Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?
In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill.
In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms.
Age verification isn't about protecting children; it's about attacking privacy.
@simon_brooke tell me again how corporations aren't de-facto nation states right now? ref https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116233751933300375
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@simon_brooke Are we sure about this? I thought I saw a post yesterday that said that this idea had come from an LLM someone was using to help them figure it out and they wrote a post based on that.
But I don’t know if that was this post or a different one.
@foobarsoft Follow the link.
Yes, provided we accept the authenticity of the authors of that site, we are sure about that. They publish enough of their data that it would be possible to verify it, although I have not done so in any depth.
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@simon_brooke Are we sure about this? I thought I saw a post yesterday that said that this idea had come from an LLM someone was using to help them figure it out and they wrote a post based on that.
But I don’t know if that was this post or a different one.
@foobarsoft @simon_brooke Yes a lot of this is AI slop. Doesn't mean it's not true but FFS can we not rely on the exploitative, confidently lying machine? So tired of this bullshit.
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@simon_brooke tell me again how corporations aren't de-facto nation states right now? ref https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116233751933300375
@codinghorror @simon_brooke
;) Always have been, but more slippery. C.f.: the church (or other transnational religious authority). -
Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?
In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill.
In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms.
Age verification isn't about protecting children; it's about attacking privacy.
Of course, the reason Meta wants these laws passed is to prevent people from having alternatives when Zuck doxxes all his users.
If he does it alone, pretty much everyone with a functional brain will leave.
#meta #Zuckerberg #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #AgeVerification #Privacy #PredatoryCapitalism #Surveillance #FirstAmendment #Coup #Protest #Activism #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigBrother #TheNewInquisition
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@foobarsoft Follow the link.
Yes, provided we accept the authenticity of the authors of that site, we are sure about that. They publish enough of their data that it would be possible to verify it, although I have not done so in any depth.
It's the same post, I read it yesterday too and it was mentioned in the methodology section. Which today however looks a bit cleaned up from what I remember
https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings#methodology-and-toolsThe potential LLM authorship discussion on reddit, make of that what you will
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/oa7lywh/ -
Of course, the reason Meta wants these laws passed is to prevent people from having alternatives when Zuck doxxes all his users.
If he does it alone, pretty much everyone with a functional brain will leave.
#meta #Zuckerberg #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #AgeVerification #Privacy #PredatoryCapitalism #Surveillance #FirstAmendment #Coup #Protest #Activism #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigBrother #TheNewInquisition
It’s not just about attacking privacy and removing it from society. I think it’s also more about control.
Control of what a person sees, what a person thinks, what the person will be “allowed” to do depending on the party in charge involved.
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Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?
In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill.
In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms.
Age verification isn't about protecting children; it's about attacking privacy.
@simon_brooke I'm aware. Anyone willing to review what I want to send to my local rep?
*edited want to willing - seems more appropriate.
^edit 2 I did text him the link. Delivered not yet read.
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Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?
In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill.
In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms.
Age verification isn't about protecting children; it's about attacking privacy.
@simon_brooke Also no - it's not about attacking privacy. It's about enabling a level of Epstein most of us can't imagine. It's giving an API for his type of people so they can abuse at scale.
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It's the same post, I read it yesterday too and it was mentioned in the methodology section. Which today however looks a bit cleaned up from what I remember
https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings#methodology-and-toolsThe potential LLM authorship discussion on reddit, make of that what you will
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/oa7lywh/@gotofritz @simon_brooke @foobarsoft the first I saw of this was https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file
They freely admit the AI and tell you to check the primary sources. Which I do not have time to do.
I don’t condemn using AI for research - it’s a tool, and clearly assembled this in inhuman time. Is some of it wrong? Probably.
AI hype is a planet-cooking disaster. The tech itself is just another tool - maybe useful for good, or evil: https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/
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Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?
In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill.
In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms.
Age verification isn't about protecting children; it's about attacking privacy.
@simon_brooke I don’t understand. What does Meta have to gain by these age verification laws? Isn’t getting teens hooked on their products big business for them?
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@simon_brooke I don’t understand. What does Meta have to gain by these age verification laws? Isn’t getting teens hooked on their products big business for them?
@chimpchomp @simon_brooke At the very least, it sets two novel precedents:
1. that when a kid is harmed on the Internet, Facebook and Instagram aren't held liable— rather, the OS manufacturer is.
2. that creating barriers to information at a systems level of consumer computing be normalized, along with bolstering arguments to centralize the systems needed to implement these policies -
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It's the same post, I read it yesterday too and it was mentioned in the methodology section. Which today however looks a bit cleaned up from what I remember
https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings#methodology-and-toolsThe potential LLM authorship discussion on reddit, make of that what you will
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/oa7lywh/@gotofritz @simon_brooke @foobarsoft there's more discussion about how negatively llm-usage affected the quality of the research on lobste.rs: https://lobste.rs/s/ddrcpa/i_traced_2_billion_nonprofit_grants_45#c_alwe0c
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Io ho compilato il loro form per avere informazioni quando partiranno e nel form ti viene chiesto se sei "consumer" o "business", quindi credo siano interessati anche a noi "consumer".
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Vedremo dai.
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Ah, anche poeta™
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