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> Are you calling me a corporate apologist? For one, corporations want less regulation Ah yes, so that's why Meta et al are the main ones behind pushes for mor

• palata 5mo ago
  Is that how it went? My feeling is that more and more people are realising that social media are terrible for the children (well, for everybody, but children we want to protect). Therefore more governments are looking into preventing children from accessing social media. Therefore social media companies are trying to lobby for whatever is better for them. For Meta, it's better to have age verification than to downright ban social media.
• f1shy 5mo ago
  In my experience they DO want more regulation. Regulation that helps them. The automobile’s industry was lobbying for years to have all kinds of things mandatory. They invented lots of standards and pseudo standards. At the end they shoot themselves in the foot.