jwzMar 14

This is some boss-level forensic accounting demonstrating that Facebook secretly wrote and is shepherding the various "age verification" bills.

Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation & Institutional Capture: How corporate lobbying, think tank infrastructure, competing model legislation, and obscured funding networks are shaping age verification policy across 45 states and Congress...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4c

Show threadJeff AtwoodMar 15
@jwz this would not surprise me one bit. Facebook isn't evil, per se, but has the "we will do whatever it takes to win, no matter what", and there's not a whole lot of difference between being completely amoral and outright evil.
Show threadaardvark
@codinghorror @jwz no. Facebook is evil. Cf the book “Careless People”. Evil. Let’s not mince words.
Mar 15 at 3:58pmWeb