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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 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours 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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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They don't want to deal with the costs, just get the data. At least that's what I got from the text, as a reason why they were pushing to make social networks extempt and keep it on app/OS level.

Fuckers.

[–] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But they're not getting the data. The data is going to Google, MS and Apple. All they're getting is an age bracket.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

For now... But they are pushing laws that require the infrastructure for data harvesting be built into the OS level and then broadcast the data to any program that asks for it without question...