This is how all these big technologies work, and of course, a large part of their revenue is dedicated to promoting things like age verification, data collection, and surveillance.
Sufferr on
Damn, it really is important to step away from US tech ASAP.
LostInLittleroot on
If Meta datacenters go down during the war nothing of value will be lost. Fuck Mark Fuckerberg
Ilikeyounott on
Hiding behind shell companies like this should be illegal and a hefty fine. It helps no one but the psychopathic companies.
John-333 on
> The technical reality hits harder than policy abstractions. These bills mandate OS-level APIs that apps can query for age data—creating a permanent identity layer baked into your phone’s core functions.
I’m not surprised by anything any more.
Pokethomas on
TLDR it’s the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA) 👍
7grims on
REDDIT FOR THE WIIIIIIN
Been a long time since redditors sleuth out and fucked some mega rich corp assholes 😀 fuck yah
Uranium-Sandwich657 on
And why is all that data so valuable?
No_Size9475 on
Everyone needs to read the reddit post on this, it’s fantastic work and shows how this entire age verification drive in the US is simply to push liability onto the OS developer and not on the social media company.
peppylootu on
Where is the $2b though? Who gets the hat portion of it?
Independent_Duck_616 on
Latest version of apple iphone beta ios has age verification baked in. Asks for credit card authorization
No_Cantaloupe_4149 on
Meta – creepy as ever.
GreyBeardEng on
“Age verification bills target Meta’s competitors while leaving Meta platforms untouched.”
Always_Pizza_Time1 on
I wish white collar crimes were held accountable with real prison time.
he_who_shall on
Reminds me of how Amazon fought for years against collecting taxes for online transactions.
Until the point where they dominated the e-commence landscape and could easily implement it whereas it would be much more difficult for all of their small business competitors. Then they became one of its biggest supporters.
Jazzlike-Leopard-140 on
Zuckerberg is nothing more than a grifter. He lacks compassion, takes zero responsibility for the evils he has created and it is all about the green, which he doesn’t need. Evil men do evil things with little remorse.
Dizzy_Citron4871 on
Metas strategy here is to obviously push any kind of age related verification onto the OS providers so they can remove themselves from the liability of enforcing it or being regulated themselves.
Zuckerberg has been in LA courts answering to parents that his platform utterly and tragically failed for the past few weeks. Social media needs to be fully regulated at this point, it is an unfettered stain on greater society.
AvailableReporter484 on
I hope this is more successful than “Reddit uncovers Boston bombing suspect” lmao
highendfive on
Save you a click:
The investigation by GitHub user “upper-up” traces funding through organizations like the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA), which launched December 18, 2024, and testified for Utah’s SB-142 just days later. Bloomberg and Deseret News reported Meta’s backing of DCA, part of a $70 million fragmented super PAC strategy designed to evade FEC tracking. Traditional election spending disclosure requirements don’t apply to this fragmented approach.
KnotSoSalty on
Worth remembering that Meta has basically admitted they allow scammers to continue to operate on their platform and buy ads even after getting caught because they need their revenue. It takes 20+ verified reports that a company buying ads is a scammer before Meta will shutdown their ad buy. Even then they make it ridiculously easy for the same scammer to come back under a different name and start the process over again.
Meta is taking money from fraudulent businesses and using it to push for age verification services no one wants.
uniklyqualifd on
When the Internet began they just had contests where people entered their names and date of birth!
ArcticAlmond on
It was obvious that someone was pulling the strings from behind the scenes. It couldn’t simply be a coincidence that governments all over the Western world suddenly had a raging hard on for age verification.
hackingdreams on
Remember investigative journalism? Boy, those were better times, huh?
KaZaA4LiFe on
The hacker known as Reddit User???
myislanduniverse on
I was wondering who was lobbying so hard for this shit. Turns out it’s Facebook again. I can’t express how thoroughly I hate Mark Zuckerberg.
-113points on
Even if we need something like this
it should be government’s job anyway
Asleep_Management900 on
Darpa’s LifeLog surveillance Program Closed February 4, 2004
Facebook opened it’s App and Surveillance Program February 4, 2004
Relative-Freedom-295 on
I’m shocked that everyone seems shocked.
Who do you think really funded Facebook to begin with? Who do you think funded Oracle?
kerc on
I finished reading Careless People today. This is not surprising at all.
Stunning_Flan_5987 on
What ever happened to personal responsibility?
Why is other people’s kids now everyone’s problem?
kwagmire9764 on
All this shady tech news reminds me of the movie Jason Bourne where he uncovers that the CIA is funding the development and implementation of new tech but they want to use it to spy on people. I know its not a groundbreaking idea but it seems very prescient 10 years later.
Fun-Grab-9337 on
Fuckerberg really needs to be behind bars and made an example of. He has had such an outsized fucking of the human race/destruction of society its insane.
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This is how all these big technologies work, and of course, a large part of their revenue is dedicated to promoting things like age verification, data collection, and surveillance.
Damn, it really is important to step away from US tech ASAP.
If Meta datacenters go down during the war nothing of value will be lost. Fuck Mark Fuckerberg
Hiding behind shell companies like this should be illegal and a hefty fine. It helps no one but the psychopathic companies.
> The technical reality hits harder than policy abstractions. These bills mandate OS-level APIs that apps can query for age data—creating a permanent identity layer baked into your phone’s core functions.
I’m not surprised by anything any more.
TLDR it’s the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA) 👍
REDDIT FOR THE WIIIIIIN
Been a long time since redditors sleuth out and fucked some mega rich corp assholes 😀 fuck yah
And why is all that data so valuable?
Everyone needs to read the reddit post on this, it’s fantastic work and shows how this entire age verification drive in the US is simply to push liability onto the OS developer and not on the social media company.
Where is the $2b though? Who gets the hat portion of it?
Latest version of apple iphone beta ios has age verification baked in. Asks for credit card authorization
Meta – creepy as ever.
“Age verification bills target Meta’s competitors while leaving Meta platforms untouched.”
I wish white collar crimes were held accountable with real prison time.
Reminds me of how Amazon fought for years against collecting taxes for online transactions.
Until the point where they dominated the e-commence landscape and could easily implement it whereas it would be much more difficult for all of their small business competitors. Then they became one of its biggest supporters.
Zuckerberg is nothing more than a grifter. He lacks compassion, takes zero responsibility for the evils he has created and it is all about the green, which he doesn’t need. Evil men do evil things with little remorse.
Metas strategy here is to obviously push any kind of age related verification onto the OS providers so they can remove themselves from the liability of enforcing it or being regulated themselves.
Zuckerberg has been in LA courts answering to parents that his platform utterly and tragically failed for the past few weeks. Social media needs to be fully regulated at this point, it is an unfettered stain on greater society.
I hope this is more successful than “Reddit uncovers Boston bombing suspect” lmao
Save you a click:
The investigation by GitHub user “upper-up” traces funding through organizations like the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA), which launched December 18, 2024, and testified for Utah’s SB-142 just days later. Bloomberg and Deseret News reported Meta’s backing of DCA, part of a $70 million fragmented super PAC strategy designed to evade FEC tracking. Traditional election spending disclosure requirements don’t apply to this fragmented approach.
Worth remembering that Meta has basically admitted they allow scammers to continue to operate on their platform and buy ads even after getting caught because they need their revenue. It takes 20+ verified reports that a company buying ads is a scammer before Meta will shutdown their ad buy. Even then they make it ridiculously easy for the same scammer to come back under a different name and start the process over again.
Meta is taking money from fraudulent businesses and using it to push for age verification services no one wants.
When the Internet began they just had contests where people entered their names and date of birth!
It was obvious that someone was pulling the strings from behind the scenes. It couldn’t simply be a coincidence that governments all over the Western world suddenly had a raging hard on for age verification.
Remember investigative journalism? Boy, those were better times, huh?
The hacker known as Reddit User???
I was wondering who was lobbying so hard for this shit. Turns out it’s Facebook again. I can’t express how thoroughly I hate Mark Zuckerberg.
Even if we need something like this
it should be government’s job anyway
Darpa’s LifeLog surveillance Program Closed February 4, 2004
Facebook opened it’s App and Surveillance Program February 4, 2004
I’m shocked that everyone seems shocked.
Who do you think really funded Facebook to begin with? Who do you think funded Oracle?
I finished reading Careless People today. This is not surprising at all.
What ever happened to personal responsibility?
Why is other people’s kids now everyone’s problem?
All this shady tech news reminds me of the movie Jason Bourne where he uncovers that the CIA is funding the development and implementation of new tech but they want to use it to spy on people. I know its not a groundbreaking idea but it seems very prescient 10 years later.
Fuckerberg really needs to be behind bars and made an example of. He has had such an outsized fucking of the human race/destruction of society its insane.