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First they wanted your government ID to access websites. Then your Discord messages. Now they want it for your operating system. Soon it could be a monthly “data handling” fee just to access your own files. They won’t stop unless you push back.

Meta spent a record 26.3 million dollars lobbying in 2025 and quietly funded a group called the Digital Childhood Alliance to push age-verification laws. The real target appears to be the App Store Accountability Act and similar bills. These laws would require Apple and Google to verify ages before anyone can download any app from their stores. That means every game, banking app, fitness tracker, and productivity tool would face new checks and costs. Social media apps from Meta would be exempt. The result is a huge compliance burden shifted onto the app stores while Meta avoids the same rules. Public records show heavy lobbying, fast-created advocacy groups, and funding ties that raise questions about who is really behind the "child safety" push. Full open-source investigation with 47 documented findings from lobbying disclosures, tax filings, hearing transcripts, and more is now available.

This investigative document alleges that Meta is engaging in massive lobbying efforts to ensure that the recent tightening of age verification measures does not burden its own company. Based on publicly available information, it is well worth reading. What lies behind the slogan "To protect children" should be revealed.

🚨NEW: Discord's third party vendor ID Verification system, Persona was got hacked. Anyone who performed age verification with Persona could be extensively compromised online.

Payment processors think they get to decide what legal content adults can access online. They only listen when people push back. Say NO TO CENSORSHIP. 📞 Phone numbers in the replies. 🎨 New PURE ONYX artwork by Xxoom

In b4 Nvidia announces a cloud service that can run its new DLSS5 tech for you. "No need to purchase expensive hardware -- just scan your face and government ID and stay connected to our servers so you can play a single player game."

For people asking if you'll be able to turn off DLSS5, it's better than that : you won't be able to turn it on because that demo runs on two 5090s

Can't go a day without something like this. Payments, platforms, messaging apps, and now to mod your games. Everything is slowly being tied to identity. Your government ID... to mod your games. "Optional" isn’t going to stay optional.

Like I said in a previous post on the topic of ID/Age Verification - I started digging into the topic quite a bit, especially after that Meta lobbying exposed news dropped. What I have (and more of others) found is something that is so stupid, but also makes a whole lot of sense...in fact imo its the perfect piece of the puzzle. I will lay out my digging through a series of events: 1. Advertisers (ie Corporations with products or services to sell), contract with big Social media platforms, paying boatloads of money for adspace. The logic is that even if 10% of the tens of millions of users buy into their ads, its worth the investment. 2. The onset of botting, has led to ads being viewers by more bots than they do humans. No matter how many bots watch your ads, they never need your products or services. So they will never give advertisers' money and business. 3. This essentially means that, Advertisers are proverbially throwing money into the drain. Paying the price with practically no ROI. Many reports indicate that this botting problem resulted in multi-billion dollar wastage on ad spending. 4. Advertisers have started grilling social media companies, especially Meta which was one of the biggest sources of the issue. This resulted in many advertisers basically threatening to pull ad money until the botting situation is controlled. 5. The botting situation became even WORSE around 2023-2025 with the Ai-Bros and Ai Companies hard pushing Ai development. The past anti-bot systems and measures lose effectiveness as Ai makes bots more sophisticated. 6. Then late 2025/2026, you can see the SNAP. The nuclear solution - Age/ID verification being pushed or implemented across multiple countries at around the same timing (within months). 7. Then now all the news about Socmed and big tech corps lobbying politicians and governments for mass ID/Age Verification on an OS/Appstore level. 8. Why? Since you pick your poison to "age verify"...a selfie, submit your ID, or Ping your credit card. Sure your age will be "verified", but it also comes with the useful byproduct of confirming you are HUMAN. So as a takeaway, what does this mean? Well to me at least, this quite neatly explains why BOTH Governments and large Corporations have collaborated and colluded to push for ID Verification at an alarming pace Globally. In the end, it really was about money. It also means quite simply in my opinion - these Corporations and Governments, NEVER really cared about "the children". "Think of the Children" imo, has always been, and will continue to be the convenient excuse for these corporations and politicians to implement this privacy-invasive system. Because if only PROVEN humans can use social media, or other similar sites/services - Advertisers will be mollified and continue to throw money at these Big Tech corporations for continued ad space. This ALSO means - that the so-called parents and people like the Riceman who run defence of ID Verification, are either very stupid, or complicit in this. Either way, the only winners are the Advertisers, the Big Tech Corpos, and the Politicians. We all however, lose.

Moderators of the r/Linux subreddit are now censoring posts which talk about Age Verification. Not only are posts being removed, but I’ve heard from multiple Reddit users who have been banned from r/Linux for expressing opposition to Age Verification.

The same individual responsible for adding age verification variables to Systemd is now attempting to add them to Arch Linux. I think we should all be asking @dylanmtaylor92 the same question as this user.

@Arin_Yumi Based Trump

Did Trump just make a Pearl Harbor reference in front of Takaichi 💀💀💀

@Ra2byou Which department of federal is this?

The stickers are so new that we can tell you're the one who put them up

@LewisProth87741 @deafenhidramin Grass don't grow in the slum

@deafenhidramin Heh! The grass is always greener on the other side!

living as unprivileged in third world country

@melcestt Public would agree to send this kid to Jeffrey Epstein

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@KingZahyd @CultureCrave Settle down for live in residents evil universe?

If it isn't Ada Wong then Capcom officially hates peak cinema. Imagine chasing a woman across the entire globe for 30 years just to marry a random NPC. The red dress has always been the endgame. Claire fans are currently huffing pure cope because they know the chemistry just isn't there. If that ring doesn't signify a vow to the world's most dangerous spy then what are we even doing

'Resident Evil Requiem' director Koshi Nakanishi on who Leon S. Kennedy is married to: "The answer will become clear some day, but not just yet. What we wanted to convey in the final scene is simple: Leon now has a 'place to go home to', and we hope you can imagine the peaceful moments he spends there" "Leon is a man who says very little about the things that truly matter, but he would sacrifice himself without a second thought to save a life right in front of him. So what does his ring signify? Resolve? Or a vow?" "He may never voice the answer himself, but for now, after finishing a long battle, he has a 'place to go home to'. Isn't that enough?" (via @eurogamer)

@CaudilloXIV My culture is not your costume tourist

I’m always amazed by the beauty of eastern foids

@SlayeddotCoom Bbno$ hate? I am in home❤️‍🩹 never like that performative jerk

It’s so damning how he will immediately address this once it gained traction, but he still won’t say anything about the multiple artists that provided evidence of him lying to them and underpaying them. I’ve had other artists reach out to me about this claiming the same but they don’t want to have their name public because his fans do targeted harassment for speaking up against him. How can people ignore direct evidence of him scamming small artists?

間違って消しちゃったから再投稿！ 「清楚で一途な美人生徒会長の彼女にネトラセをお願いしてみた」 何人もの女の子を強引に陥落してきたチャラ男に頼んでみた結果。

@BLADEovM00N We can't have ram because of this🥀

Indonesians and Papuans: