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Billionaires are people.
They have the will to fuck everything that moves.
Billionaires certainly are people, but these laws don't even serve billionaires in any meaningful sense, so that's hardly an explanation without more elaboration.
Well, the billionaires that own age verification and surveillance services have gone from trying their best to stalk to world through tracking and analytics, despite pesky privacy laws, to forcing giant swaths of populations to hand over data by compulsion.
Yeah, they're making a mint off us.
OK, that's about the elaboration I was looking for...
Somehow I don't think this is the central reason. I think governments are perfectly capable of doing bad things completely without billionaires having an interest in it. It especially doesn't explain things like the California law that will regulate how we can or cannot program operating systems (hint: software code is a form of speech, meaning that this ought to be struck down as a violation of free speech), because no age verification services are involved in that.
I am Californian and that one snuck past me. I really didn't hear anything about it until recently and I'm pretty pissed.
You can't put the genie back into the lamp on biometrics. We needed real control over outlr digital data and biometrics before this became law. I hope it is repealed somehow, but the elite class don't give a fuck.
As for business vs government, government is scrutinized closer but businesses get away with much more. It's easier to get around red tape to outsource work to businesses than build government infrastructure to do things themselves.
Yes, I expressed the same sentiment here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55959326/24302621
Is our entire information "ecosystem" so broken that we only pay attention to bad things after they've already happened, not before when there is still a chance to stop them?!