meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

Don't worry, DCA to the rescue! https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

Oh it's so nuanced and hard to parse that he's arguing for compromise. The trouble is, compromise isn't really a tenable option with encryption. Either you make a draconian law that forces all electronic devices to run approved software only, or people will have access to easy encrypted messaging. There's really no middle ground, because where the smallest weakening of encryption affects everyone's privacy, only outlawing encryption completely will get it out of the hands of criminals. The cat's out of the bag. Author here and in earlier writing seems to make the argument that a little compromise would make the courts less unhappy, but I think that's misattributing motivation. These laws actually are originated by big tech, who think they will be shielded from liability and make more money off of selling your data. https://github.com/uppe

It's not _completely_ shrouded in mystery - it started after Facebook got slapped by the EU for irresponsible handling of underage users, and since began a heavily funded lobbying push to drag competitors down with them. https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings... Of course, it's probably also been coopted by the neverending stream of nanny-state political power grabs in both the US and EU.

Sure, I believe that the likes of Meta, Google, and god damn Microsoft who enabled mass brutal persecution of millions of people for money (engaged in recording and analysis of phone calls of Palestinians), care about vulnerable individuals, and not just about stuffing their pockets with more and more money by the means of increased control over "their" platforms. They sure spend billions to "help the vulnerable". Right. Like Meta here: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-pas... https://nationalpress.org/topic/model-legislation-statehouse... https://www.thegazette.com/opinion/guest-columnists/lawmaker... I have looked into hiring lobbyists. I have seen how the sausage gets made. Pop quiz, who do you think funds https://www.digitalchildhoodalliance.org/ ? https://ifstudies.org/in-the-news/over-50-conservative-group... :) https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-beh... https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b... https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings --- In general, this is an example of the Martha Mitchell effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mitchell_effect Real conspiracies exist. Openly. They're open secrets for those in the know. You'd be surprised by how banal so much of this is. S

This is a "productionisation" of the same content discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528 I would caution readers to do their due dilligence as the presentation may be fancy but that should not immediately translate into a signal of quality in itself given the author has disclosed using Claude Code for a chunk of this work. While I won't outright discount the findings (as there is "too much" to reasonably verify), there are a few oddities around the source repo such as errors where Claude has tried to access sources, been denied and then noted as much or where it has seemingly fetched incorrect files and tried to interpret them (https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...) I am not under the immediate impression that the author has done thorough due diligence rather than just offloading that to re

I came here to say that this is pretty much my view having poked around a little bit as well. This file does not exactly fill me with confidence: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings... In one part of the report, there seems to be this implicit assumption that Linux and Horizon OS (Meta's VR OS) are somehow comparable and that Meta will be better equipped than Linux if age verification is required. It doesn't explicitly say "This will allow Horizon OS to become the defacto OS and Linux will die out" but that seems to be the impression I'm getting which uhh... would make zero sense. More broadly, this entire report (and others like it) are extremely annoying in that I've seen some Reddit comments either taking "lots of text" as a signal of quality or asking "Does anyone have proof that these claims are inaccurate" w

> This isn't age verification at the point of accessing restricted content. This is a persistent age-broadcasting service baked into the operating system itself, queryable by every installed application. You're not missing anything. It's just an AI generated summary of the original GitHub link https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings I found the original article much easier to read anyways

Eh... That "[removed]" there means there was something to read and now it's gone? At least the author posted a link to the dataset in a comment so it survived: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

The original post was removed from reddit but it links to this GitHub repo that has most of the same information, but in a different format: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

They linked to this GitHub project: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

Mainstream media is largely captured by the same monied interests as discussed in the reddit post. Although the poster does mention an article from Bloomberg as evidence, most of their sources are local outlets or tech-focused. https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...

The guy posted a Ask HN there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361235 https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...

Re-posting findings, cause somehow OP's message was downvoted: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...