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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech. Reddit researcher exposes Meta’s $2B campaign to force Apple and Google into building surveillance systems while exempting its own platforms
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Meta is pure evil who is pushing age verification laws to benefits from surveillance tech.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

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Show threadkronos23Mar 17
@nixCraft easy, don't use their services anymore and use free and decentralized platforms and end of the problem 
Show threadFelis_Catus_DomesticusMar 17
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Show threadPasswordsarehard4Mar 17
@nixCraft yeah, that makes sense. They can shift liability from the apps to the devices that access them. They are a software company that dabbles in hardware, if successful they save on development and (more importantly) legal fees every year on most of thier product line. $2B sounds like a lot but class action lawsuits for child exploitation can get expensive quick. This way the phone has the legal responsibility to protect you.
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatMar 17

@passwordsarehard4 @nixCraft "protect you"

It won't, and will endanger children instead be design because child abusers define what "protection" means

Show threadPasswordsarehard46d ago
@fluffykittycat @nixCraft this isn’t actually about the “protection” or lack thereof. The courts will write the laws vague so they can change the meaning as they see fit. Eventually some judge will say “your the worst of the worst, you didn’t do any of the things we didn’t tell you to do” and issue a huge fine. It’ll get appealed and overturned but all that costs money too. It’s just easier to not be involved at all.
Show threadFelis_Catus_DomesticusMar 17
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Show threadJustin DerrickMar 17

@nixCraft So this is Meta’s response to ad blockers and JavaScript blockers and cookie blockers and privacy-centric browsers…

Cut through all the bullshit and get directly to your government-issued identification to extract your demographics (if not your full and real identity)… so they can increase the cost of ads and target you as an individual - not just a profile of interests.

Show threadEtamMar 18
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