but they lobby for specific (often pretty bad) forms of age verification to be able to
- spy on people better
- have a regulatory moat where due to beady designed laws new alternatives have a much higher hurdle/initial investments and in turn never get anywhere
Meta is lobbying for age verification because it helps provide an institutional moat for them against the open web.
Could you elaborate?
I thought Meta wants to put the burden onto the platform, i.e. Apple and Google, is what they are lobbying for.
https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/meta-lobbies-for-ap...
What is the institutional moat?
no age verification is not ID verification
through meta might have lobbied on both
but they lobby for specific (often pretty bad) forms of age verification to be able to
- spy on people better
- have a regulatory moat where due to beady designed laws new alternatives have a much higher hurdle/initial investments and in turn never get anywhere