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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)
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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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[–] artyom@piefed.social -2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

We weren't talking about apps, we were talking about Facebook like buttons on websites.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Causation:

  1. FaceBook website has apps
  2. FaceBook website is an App store
  3. FaceBook website requires access to Age API
  4. Firefox needs to passthrough Age API to Facebook's domain
  5. All embedded FaceBook buttons now get to see your OS's age
[–] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's not an app store.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Does the Court ask you?
Does the legislature?
Does Meta come to ask what you call an "App Store"?

[–] artyom@piefed.social -3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The legislation clearly states what is and is not an app store. I'd recommend you mull it over.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

(3) APP.—The term “app” means a software application or electronic service that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

(4) APP STORE.—The term “app store” means a publicly available website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes and facilitates the download of an app from a third-party developer by a user of a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

100% sure they all come in the category of an "App Store" when convenient for the lobbyist.