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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech (www.gadgetreview.com)

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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Confusing title: There was no other "who" behind it. It was Meta. They tried to hide their lobbying through other shell orgs.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Scooby-Doo unmasking scene

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Old man Zuck!?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

"And I would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for the mountains of obvious clues strewn all over the place!"

[–] calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

It’s also a useless article. It barely covers what it claims to, but immediately moves on to “What ‘Get Age Category API’ Really Means for Your Device”

The Reddit post is here and actually has details.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They must be really big fans of that "We hold these truths to be self evident" line.