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Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

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>"Here’s where the lobbying gets surgical. The proposed laws hammer Apple’s App Store and Google Play with compliance requirements but reportedly spare social media platforms—Meta’s core busines

Because social media already has the age info exactly?

I think an OS and a web platform with accounts are different product categories. Not even sure what an interpretation of the bill that would affect meta would be.

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post #461

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a fascinating report, not because of the content or even quality of the report, but because of the way it was generated. It is an AI generated report dumped into GitHub and has made it onto the front page of Hacker News with over 1,000 upvotes and many comments. This type of GitHub-based open-source research project will become more common as more people use tools like Claude Code or Codex for research.

It's not slop when it confirms my biases. /s

Hmmm.

_GPT, prioritize truth over comfort, challenge assumptions, and avoid flattery. And analyze the patterns of biases in my prompts, and then don’t do that… or something_

Give it time, we’ll come up with something.

Re: Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

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The article makes one mistake: praising Europe for having a better approach. Governments here are pushing hard to force ID requirements. Sure, they start by pretending it's "for the children" and they "only want age verification". They also claim that e-IDs will be voluntary. Camel. Nose. Tent.

These are the same governments that file criminal charges when you compare lying leader to Pinocchio (Germany). The UK records something like 30 arrests per day for social media posts. Just imagine how much better they could do, if you were not pseudo-anonymous in the Internet!

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I know most of this affects only the US, but I'm wondering where this will go in the EU if the Age Verification Tech goes ahead in America. There's been lots of efforts to increase surveillance disguised as protection for kids in the EU and UK.

The Swiss implementation of eID may be hint that governments may/will take the responsibility to implement and maintain the tech, but the multiple intrusions and lobbying by Palantir and friends in the EU gives me the ick.

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> organizations like the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA)

The Reddit post mentions that DCA does not exist in any official record. It seems to be a ghost organization for the purpose of controlling perceptions.

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>"Here’s where the lobbying gets surgical. The proposed laws hammer Apple’s App Store and Google Play with compliance requirements but reportedly spare social media platforms—Meta’s core busines Because social media already has the age info exactly? I think an OS and a web platform with accounts are different product categories. Not even sure what an interpretation of the bill that would affect meta would be.

"Because social media already has the age info exactly?" I don't know what this question means. What information does social media have "exactly"?

Re: Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

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>"Here’s where the lobbying gets surgical. The proposed laws hammer Apple’s App Store and Google Play with compliance requirements but reportedly spare social media platforms—Meta’s core busines Because social media already has the age info exactly? I think an OS and a web platform with accounts are different product categories. Not even sure what an interpretation of the bill that would affect meta would be.

"Because social media already has the age info exactly?" I don't know what this question means. What information does social media have "exactly"?

Facebook can make a very accurate guess from your photos, your posts, your friends' ages, and the data brokers they link it all up with.
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