Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture
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#2And none of it matters. Netchoice is shooting down legislation as fast as grandstanding legislators propose it. The bill of rights doesn't have an age limit. If a 10 year old can own an AR-15, that same 10 year old definitely has 1A rights too. Freedom of speech. Freedom of assembly. They can decide who they want to talk to online without a parent getting in the way of it.
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#5Here's the author's description of their work:
## Methodology and Tools
This investigation was conducted by a human researcher who directed all research decisions, selected sources, evaluated findings, and wrote the public-facing posts. Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI tool, running Claude Opus) was used as a research assistant for:
- Bulk data processing: parsing 4,433 IRS Schedule I grant records, 59,736 DAF recipients, 132MB of Colorado TRACER campaign finance data, and IRS Business Master File extracts covering all US tax-exempt organizations
- Cross-referencing findings across 24 analysis files and identifying patterns that span multiple research threads
- Drafting intermediate working documents and structured data summaries
- Web searches against public databases (OpenSecrets, ProPublica, state lobbying portals, WHOIS/DNS, Wayback Machine)
Claude Code did not independently choose what to investigate, decide what constitutes a finding, or determine what to publish. Every factual claim in this repository cites a primary source (IRS filing, Senate disclosure, state database, legislative record, or published reporting) that can be independently verified. The tool does not change whether Meta's LD-2 filing lists H.R. 3149, whether DCA has an EIN, or whether Stefanski admitted tech funding under oath. The records exist or they don't.
If you want to verify any finding, the source URLs and database identifiers are provided throughout. Start with the primary records, not with this repository.
Re: Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture
#6And none of it matters. Netchoice is shooting down legislation as fast as grandstanding legislators propose it. The bill of rights doesn't have an age limit. If a 10 year old can own an AR-15, that same 10 year old definitely has 1A rights too. Freedom of speech. Freedom of assembly. They can decide who they want to talk to online without a parent getting in the way of it.
Doesn't apply to private companies.
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#7LLM slop, they even left the 403 errors in the original dump, and accepted hallucinations.
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#8I was not surprised to see Meta behind all this privacy invading stuff but Anthropic surprised me.
Re: Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture
#9And none of it matters. Netchoice is shooting down legislation as fast as grandstanding legislators propose it. The bill of rights doesn't have an age limit. If a 10 year old can own an AR-15, that same 10 year old definitely has 1A rights too. Freedom of speech. Freedom of assembly. They can decide who they want to talk to online without a parent getting in the way of it.
A 10 year old can’t own an AR-15 in many states. But I agree that a 10 year old has 1A rights. The problem is that the Supreme Court shocked everyone when they recently ruled that age verification for porn is legal in a case against the state of Texas. That now has opened the flood gates for more states to violate civil rights.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/scotus-porn-ruling-opens-d...
Re: Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture
#10Corporate lobby should be treated as bribing the politicians.
In ideal world (where we don't live), some of the primary goals of corporations and governments contradict to each other (and there is another body):
* Corporations - maximum profit at all cost to its shareholders
* Government (I mean the ideal one) - prosperity for its citizens
* UN - prosperity for the world (because governments can achieve prosperity for own citizens by exploiting other government citizens)
When they have contradictory goals, lower in the chain should not drastically impact the higher body's goals.
Corporate lobby is doing it, hence US is moving towards feudal system. Because corporations wants to exploit people at maximum speed and squeeze everything, but do not want to take the responsibility for nurturing the people.
Here is how it looks like:
* You hire Sr eng, squeeze max out of them, lay them off
* Demand government to have better education, so it can squeeze out next
* Stop unionization at all costs
* now we are seeing this with Junior positions, no one wants to nurture and grow them, everyone wants Sr+ engineers