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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech
- swores 8mo agoDiscussed a few days ago, 554 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528 (But it's a big enough story that I'm glad to see it on front page again.)
- speefers 8mo ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 8mo agoBecause https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ applies to dupes and "old news", but not being a dick.
- chistev 8mo agoWhat's the origin of that comic site? I like it.
- ceejayoz 8mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd
- IncreasePosts 8mo agoWow,a whole site that just lists information about things. What's that all about?
- QuantumNomad_ 8mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
- hallway_monitor 8mo agoWell son, sometimes when a man and a pencil love each other very much,
- speefers 8mo ago[flagged]
- shagie 8mo agoHN is HN. From the Guidelines link at the bottom - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- dang 8mo agoComments moved thither. Thanks (and, er, sorry)!
- ChrisArchitect 8mo ago[dupe] Discussion 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528
- swores 8mo agoIronic to post "[dupe]" as a dupe itself.
- dwb 8mo agoFor some reason, this account posts little else. I don’t really get it.
- swores 8mo agoYeah, I've wondered about that before, but since it seems to more often than not be helpful I figured that even if the motivation was something lame like karma farming it does no harm. I was just surprised this time since it seemed too pointless for human judgement to have been involved, yet too slow (4 hours later than my noticing it and searching for the thread I remembered seeing days before) to be a bot...
- ChrisArchitect 8mo agoThe only thing surprising is repeat-offender OP's low-quality submission and all of the repeat discussion of a large topic from less than a week ago. Keep putting the duplicate discussions up, keep finding us highlighting the previous discussion.
- swores 8mo agoSorry for doubting you! I had thought it possible someone had set up a dupe-commenting bot (and like I said before, I didn't object if that was what you'd done), and was too lazy to look into whether you were a real person or only posted the dupe comments. But speaking as a random HN reader, I appreciate comments pointing out previous discussions :) (Though I don't think it's always a negative to have a dupe on a different day)
- bl4kers 8mo agoWho is behind it? Doesn't seem to answer
- sourcegrift 8mo agoMeta. Meta is behind Meta's 2B lobbying. Headline is crazy
- notfed 8mo ago> The European Union’s Digital Identity Wallet takes a radically different approach. Zero-knowledge proofs let you verify age without revealing personal data—like showing you’re over 18 without disclosing your birthdate or identity details I'm not buying that "I am over 18, but I tell you this without revealing that I am over 18" is a real thing