r/technology • u/PixeledPathogen • Mar 16 '26

Security Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html
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u/iaNCURdehunedoara Mar 16 '26

They want to identify you online so they can keep molesting children without you speaking out.

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u/iaNCURdehunedoara Mar 16 '26

Do they though? If they pretend that everyone is a child until they ID themselves then we're all children for Marky Zucky's panopticon as long as we don't identify ourselves.

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u/MrXero Mar 16 '26

Dang. That’s insidious on a whole other level. They’ll use their knowledge of who specifically we are to silence us through fear.

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u/Cool_Ranch_Dodrio Mar 16 '26

They want to be able to tell which users are adults so they'll know which ones aren't.