Hey man, don’t shame him, hes getting older and its hard to keep the blades up all the time, he’s trying his best.
This is a guy who has put in a lot of time and effort tracking who is actually behind the Age Verification bills here in the USA… and its not Palantir. Its… Meta? I guess not too surprising but still interesting.
Heres an excerpt and a link:
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Meta’s own Horizon OS (powering Quest VR headsets) already has Meta Account age verification, a Get Age Category API, Family Center parental controls, Quest Store age ratings, and default minor account protections. I scored Horizon OS at 83% compliance readiness with these mandates.Meta is not opposing these bills. In Colorado, I pulled lobbying records from the Secretary of State’s SODA API and found Meta’s four registered lobbyists on SB26-051 listed in a “Monitoring” position. Not amending, not opposing. Watching.
On every social media regulation bill in Colorado, Meta takes an “Amending” position, actively fighting changes. Across 117 lobbying records on 22 bills:
- Bills regulating social media: Meta position is “Amending” (fighting)
- The one bill putting the burden on OS providers: Meta position is “Monitoring” (watching)
Meta fights bills that regulate Meta. Meta watches bills that regulate everyone else.
In California, Meta spent over $1 million on state lobbying in the first three quarters of 2025 and publicly supported AB-1043, breaking ranks with its own trade associations (TechNet and Chamber of Progress both opposed it). Meta supported a bill that creates surveillance infrastructure at the OS level while leaving social media platforms untouched.
Meta’s LD-2 filings with the Senate explicitly list H.R. 3149/S. 1586, the App Store Accountability Act, as a lobbied bill. The filing narrative includes “protecting children, bullying prevention and online safety; youth safety and federal parental approval; youth restrictions on social media.” In the same filing, Meta also lobbies on KOSA and COPPA 2.0, which would regulate Meta directly. Meta supports the bill that burdens its competitors and lobbies to weaken the bills that burden itself. Both positions appear in the same quarterly disclosure.
Full Post (with sources even):
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
This guy has gone deeper, pulling more financial information from Meta’s exploits to “Protect the Wallet” not Children.
Has to be a Archive.org link since apparently Reddit moderated the post, which is insane.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/gtKZFSgTdm
subnautica 2 is… back on?
They used ChatGPT to try to break the contract LOL