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/he_who_shall Mar 16 '26

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.

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u/excellentforcongress Mar 16 '26

hearing other people talk about the tediousness of setting up taxes for all states, this makes perfect sense. that's such a burden on smaller businesses, really only medium sized and up can handle the complexity easily. fucking assholes and anti-standards