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#AgeVerification #Lobbying: #DarkMoney, Model #Legislation & Institutional Capture
How corporate lobbying, #thinktank infrastructure, competing model legislation, and obscured funding networks are shaping age verification policy across 45 states and #Congress.
#Meta spent $26.3M on lobbying in 2025, deployed 86+ lobbyists across 45 states, and funded #DigitalChildhoodAlliance (#DCA) to advocate for the #AppStoreAccountabilityAct (#ASAA). But operation extends beyond Meta.
https://tboteproject.com/

Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation & Institutional Capture

Investigative research into age verification lobbying, dark money, and model legislation

The TBOTE Project

Miami Tech Enthusiast Club 📎Jan 21

The Florida App Store Accountability Act has been introduced to the state legislature. This bill would require age verification to use the app store.

If you care about digital privacy, call your state reps and tell them you oppose SB 1722!

https://reclaimthenet.org/florida-app-store-accountability-act-privacy-first-amendment

#Florida #Privacy #AppStoreAccountabilityAct #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #DigitalRights

Privacy Guides Dec 16

Last week in the United States of America, Congress began fast-tracking nearly 20 bills in a massive effort to enact massive censorship on the internet, decimate your ability to use computers privately, and severely restrict free speech online.

We sat down with @taylorlorenz to dissect these 'Bad Internet Bills' and what you need to know to stop them: https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/12/16/taylor-lorenz-on-kosa-the-screen-act-and-repealing-section-230/

https://neat.tube/w/tS3ho29H2YTJJjEh8sXuNy
https://youtu.be/q0hE4EM7RRo

#KOSA #BadInternetBills #SCREENAct #AppStoreAccountabilityAct #USpol #USgov #Trump #Censorship #Privacy #AgeVerification #TaylorLorenz #USA #US #PrivacyGuides #Video

Taylor Lorenz on KOSA, The SCREEN Act, and Repealing Section 230

Nate Bartram sat down with technology journalist Taylor Lorenz to decipher the slate of bills being fast-tracked through Congress which threaten free speech, privacy, and your right to freely access information on the internet.

Privacy Guides

Pascal Leinert Dec 9

Nicht nur #Apple sollte davon nicht begeistert sein, sondern niemand sollte sich darüber freuen. Solche Maßnahmen, auch bekannt als "#Jugendschutz", sind einfach nur dafür da, damit Konservative Schritt für Schritt Erwachsene immer weiter entmündigen. Um den Schutz der Jugend ging es nie, sondern um Kontrolle.

#USA #AppStoreAccountabilityAct

https://www.heise.de/news/USA-App-Store-Betreiber-sollen-Alterskontrollen-uebernehmen-11099044.html

USA: App-Store-Betreiber sollen Alterskontrollen übernehmen

Ein neuer Gesetzentwurf in den USA will App-Store-Betreiber wie Apple und Google für Alterskontrollen verantwortlich machen. Apple soll nicht begeistert sein.

heise online