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I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by ikidd@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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God, I hate posting a Reddit comment, but this is huge. Every claim is sourced (I have not verified personally).

Edit: Well, Reddit does what reddit does, it's been removed. Here is a github link: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Facebook has "apps", no?

Last I checked, it had stuff like FarmVille, FrontierVille, etc.

[–] artyom@piefed.social -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We weren't talking about apps, we were talking about Facebook like buttons on websites.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Causation:

FaceBook website has apps
FaceBook website is an App store
FaceBook website requires access to Age API
Firefox needs to passthrough Age API to Facebook's domain
All embedded FaceBook buttons now get to see your OS's age

[–] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not an app store.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does the Court ask you?
Does the legislature?
Does Meta come to ask what you call an "App Store"?

[–] artyom@piefed.social -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The legislation clearly states what is and is not an app store. I'd recommend you mull it over.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago

(3) APP.—The term “app” means a software application or electronic service that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

(4) APP STORE.—The term “app store” means a publicly available website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes and facilitates the download of an app from a third-party developer by a user of a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

100% sure they all come in the category of an "App Store" when convenient for the lobbyist.