Comment by jeroenhd
3 days ago
Facebook has been documented for sponsoring these bills in the USA.
But we also have years of research about how social media and other internet phenomena are ruining kids' lives.
I don't disagree with the principle of a lot of these laws, but many implementations are too flawed to be a mistake.
>But we also have years of research about how social media and other internet phenomena are ruining kids' lives.
That's not the question. Some group is obviously pushing this agenda globally. Who?
Its so good Meta is sponsoring a bill that removes necessary accountability on their side by pushing responsibility to a third party, while at the same time getting accurate headcounts for the ad platform /s
That Facebook story is an AI generated attempt at astroturf that has gone viral, but we shouldn’t probably continue perpetuating it.
It is not Meta working across the globe because they’re too lazy to implement age verification.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708278
Meta is publicly posting ads in Europe promoting age verification, so yes Meta is a part of the problem.
What does Meta get out of enacting mass surveillance of the entire Western world (not even for their personal benefit)? That they can avoid spending 6 months implementing ID checks like porn sites have done?
Also can I see an example of those ads? Google isn’t surfacing anything relevant
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Meta is actively sponsoring the bills in my country. They go as far as ads on TV and Radio, something that never happened before
But in Australia they're actively fighting against it. Why?
It's still in their interest to offload the responsibility to legislation so they're not held accountable for frying kids brains.