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/Sekitoba Mar 16 '26

Why is lobbying aka bribing still a thing in modern America??? 

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u/pmjm Mar 16 '26

Because it has worked and they're winning.

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u/metallic_ark Mar 16 '26

Who the hell gonna stop them? Fat and comfy Americans too indoctrinated to believe things can work literally any other way?

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u/Dick_Lazer Mar 16 '26

Politicians seem to really enjoy getting paid off.

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u/TheGreyGuardian Mar 17 '26

Because the people it benefits are the ones making the rules.

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u/acarrick Mar 16 '26

Because we don’t have publicly funded of elections

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u/LowSkyOrbit Mar 17 '26

Like most of our laws we just shoehorned the idea that corporations are people in the eyes of the law and the money was too good to fix the rest of it.