The original post was removed from reddit but it links to this GitHub repo that has most of the same information, but in a different format:
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
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Re: Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
#242This feels like a waste of time and money. Why are people so interested in tracking people who on average can't read or write better than a 12 year old child? By my count, I'm assuming things will be increasingly degraded for about the next 8-10 years or so.
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#243Removed! Anyone got a copy of the original text?
Re: Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
#244Age verification is merely the background task to set up infrastructure for OS to provide many many other signals about who's using the device. Age signals from the OS? Need to provide a channel of information available to applications. Applications already talk to servers with unchecked commonality. Biometric data? Today it unlocks your private key. Tomorrow it's used to verify you are the same person that was used…
Nobody stops the government from sending goons to your door right now for a snarky comment. Some govts in fact do it today. It is also cheaper than ai rocket and more precise too
The goons are. Almost no government can create goons that are submissive enough to comply with any kind of crazy order.
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#245Bravo, some actual journalism! I wish a professional media organization had done this research. It seemed obvious this was a coordinated wave but I always figured it was moral busybodies.
EDIT: why is it deleted now?
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#246America will just get behind even more as years pass behind Europe in terms of proper regulation of the digital economy, which benefits citizens instead of companies and rich billionaries. The reason is that europeans have nothing to win from those "winner-take-all" platforms the US has built in the past decades. Europe has built zero of them. It contributes very little to Europe's GDP or the overall being of the eur…
It is interesting isn't it? Most of Europe has better internet access than the US for similar reasons: sensible regulation led to high competition.
> Most of Europe has better internet access than the US for similar reasons: sensible regulation led to high competition.
Which "most of Europe" would that be? Switzerland and handful of northern countries? Because it is definitely not Germany or several "you can't access half of the internet during times when twenty men kicking a ball on a field" southern states.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is obviously where it's going to go, at least in the US. Things that are non-religious, non-Christian especially, pro-LGBT, and similar will be disproportionately pulled under "adult content" to ensure that children are not able to be exposed to unapproved ideas during formative years.
Exactly. Having lived through it already, I know what it did to me and I would never wish that upon another child. The internet saved me from being a religious, colonial, racist piece of shit like the rest of my family.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody stops the government from sending goons to your door right now for a snarky comment. Some govts in fact do it today. It is also cheaper than ai rocket and more precise too
Cost kind of stops the government from sending goons right now, sure some governments do it but, it's costly at scale.
The UK gov has shown to be incredibly efficient at arresting and imprisoning citizens for social media comments.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cost kind of stops the government from sending goons right now, sure some governments do it but, it's costly at scale.
Missiles are a lot more expensive and much less reusable than goons though. If the nation state can’t afford the goons, it can’t afford to missile you either
Drones aren't though. Plenty of ways to use the data above for evil deeds.
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#250Bravo, some actual journalism! I wish a professional media organization had done this research. It seemed obvious this was a coordinated wave but I always figured it was moral busybodies. EDIT: why is it deleted now?
that goes against the goals of the professional media organizations.