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

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@jwz Whether Facebook lobbying or plain idiocy is behind this, it goes against us using our own devices the way we want, 17 year olds can't assemble a computer and learn programming, which is basically how every programmer in existence came to be, and it lays the groundwork for taking an I.D. from us just for using our own devices. I've been saying it:

"...send out a major distress signal. Hackers of the world, unite."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bJxpveiWpM

Hackers (1995) | Uniting Hackers | MGM Studios

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