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Veni Kunche
@veni.dev

Someone traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills No surprise. It's Meta. www.reddit.com/r/linux/comm...

reddit.comFrom the linux community on Reddit: I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that ...Posted by Ok_Lingonberry3296 - 7,702 votes and 287 comments

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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social

The Reddit post is about a specific subset (the "App Store Accountability Act" model legislation) of age verification, and I strongly suspect any Big Tech lobbying efforts behind it are a grim calculation of "well, *something* is going to make it through eventually, let's influence *what* does"

rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social

I am fundamentally opposed to age verification in any form for extremely well-documented reasons, but the App Store version is at least one layer of separation between your activity online and your identity verification and if we have to have *something* it's probably the best we can get

rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social

And it's getting more and more clear that legislators aren't going to stop coming up with awful proposals until they get *something* through and FSC v Paxton last session showed the Supreme Court is less hostile to age verification than they should be, so.