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I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ikidd@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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God, I hate posting a Reddit comment, but this is huge. Every claim is sourced (I have not verified personally).

Edit: Well, Reddit does what reddit does, it's been removed. Here is a github link: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257

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[-] artyom@piefed.social 155 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

tl;dr it was Meta (because of course it was). It is a little strange though, I would think they would absolutely want this sort of PII but they're pushing for Google and Apple to deal with it.

[-] Mikina@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

They don't want to deal with the costs, just get the data. At least that's what I got from the text, as a reason why they were pushing to make social networks extempt and keep it on app/OS level.

Fuckers.

[-] artyom@piefed.social -3 points 6 days ago

But they're not getting the data. The data is going to Google, MS and Apple. All they're getting is an age bracket.

[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

For now... But they are pushing laws that require the infrastructure for data harvesting be built into the OS level and then broadcast the data to any program that asks for it without question...

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