billforJury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/tech/meta-new-mexico-trial-jury-deliberation
Another poster child for Meta's lobbying (bribery) to encourage OS level age verification. (numerous recent references in HN posts)
They very much want to push this liability off onto someone else...
As far as end-to-end encryption, on SM sites (social media or SadoMasochism, however you want to read it) I don't really see the need.
You were downvoted, but right. Meta wants to be able to say, "hey, the OS said she was 18!" and not get in trouble for it.
Online child exploitation should be a strict liability offense.
How does this apply to, say, Signal?
That's why Signal requires a phone number. You can't talk to people you don't know because complete strangers don't give you their phone number. And if you do spam random numbers, they'll report you to the police and you can be tracked down based on your identifier, which still doesn't leak the chats between you and people you actually know.
No.. it doesn't. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-identifiers/
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> As far as end-to-end encryption, on SM sites (social media or SadoMasochism, however you want to read it) I don't really see the need.
You don't see any benefit to allowing people to encrypt their private communications in a way that can't be accessed by the company?
It's weird to see tech news commenters swing from being pro-privacy to anti-privacy when the topic of social media sites come up.
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> Another poster child for Meta's lobbying (bribery) to encourage OS level age verification. (numerous recent references in HN posts)
The references I saw showed Meta had lobbied for some of the laws that require age verification be done by the site or by third party ID services. They did not show that Meta lobbied for any of the OS bills.
Some showed that Meta had lobbied in some of the states with those bills, but they just showed Meta's total lobbying budget for those states.