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I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by ikidd@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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God, I hate posting a Reddit comment, but this is huge. Every claim is sourced (I have not verified personally).

Edit: Well, Reddit does what reddit does, it's been removed. Here is a github link: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257

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[-] lmmarsano@group.lt 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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[-] incompetent@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

I know it's a lot of information and difficult to summarize, but doesn't anyone have a TL;DR? Who's behind it?

[-] lmmarsano@group.lt 25 points 1 day ago

Those are found in other comments: Meta, NCOSE, Heritage Foundation.

Meta is covertly supporting bills to weaken the burden on itself and shift it on others (especially competitors) while NCOSE & Heritage Foundation want to regress society as usual.

[-] PokerChips@programming.dev 1 points 16 hours ago

What's surprising me is that it passed unanimously with 99 votes in Louisiana House. I know Louisiana is as dead red as it can possibly be, but still, not a single nay for such an Orwellian book bill??

[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Conveniently while also forcing all operating systems to install infrastructure to collect data about the user and broadcast it to every single program ran on the device... Make the OS do the data collection, give it to Meta for free.

[-] incompetent@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks. Yeah, I saw Meta in another comment after I posted my question.

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