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  • I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills

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  • Yeah we should deffo support privacy watchdogs who lobby for us(customer rights, consumer rights, privacy rights etc) and advice the government and when its election time, check who's the nerd vote

  • European countries reject Trump’s call for help to reopen strait of Hormuz

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  • Trump didn't even check in with allies before making the decision to attack so fack you and your war donald he actually made the situation worse lmao

  • Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting

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  • I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills

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  • So Meta (and their allies) are actively pushing and lobbying (illegally, if you look at DCA that doesn't even exist?) for laws that force operating systems to build a permanent age API thats full time accessible for apps?

    Why not use a digital identity wallet like Europe : You can prove that you are 18+ without sharing your date of birth, name, or other information (via zero-knowledge proofs), it's like a confirmation paper from a bank or another institution without any actual information about yourself. Plus there's parental consent to children's accounts (as COPPA in the U.S. already does), or like by doing verification locally or through open-source systems, not through commercial companies with a central Database.

    They knowingly ignore better, more privacy friendly alternatives to age verification because by forcing operating systems to implement a permanent age API, they create a system that burdens competitors like Apple and Google and Free and Open Source software who sometimes cant even abide to those rules, all-the-while meta's own platforms are often excluded. Apparently this fits into a broader strategy to normalize surveillance and increase dependence on commercial verification companies, which Meta indirectly benefits from.

    I dont really see this changing, I expect meta getting away with everything and getting worse cause look at the inauguration. But musk also got booted so who knows. But in the end America usually doesnt care about customer rights, privacy rights, or childrens rights ig.

    Im awaiting the results of the latest lawsuit where zuckerberg had to testify about accusations that social media, including Instagram, harm children’s mental health. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/19/tech/takeaways-mark-zuckerberg-testifiessocial-media-child-mental-health

  • Your logging is probably down

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  • Wreck it Ralph!!

  • FedEx sues for refund of Trump tariffs, days after Supreme Court ruling

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  • Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal

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  • 'Totally Illegal,' Says Senate Dem as Trump Pledges $10 Billion in US Funds for His Board of Peace

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  • His father is Charles Kushner, the US ambassador in France.

    copied from the news:French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has called the U.S. ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner, to the mat. The reason for this is the US government’s statements about the death of the far-right activist Quentin Deranque.

    Deranque died last week after a brawl with suspected far-left activists. The case sparked great turmoil in France.

    The U.S. Embassy in France and the U.S. State Department's Office for Counterterrorism announced on X that it would follow the case. According to them, "violently radical leftist extremism is on the rise" and poses a threat to public security.

    Barrot reacted fiercely today to that statement in the program 'Questions politiques' on television channel Franceinfo. According to him, it is unacceptable for another country to speak out about a case that "enters into the national community." "We do not accept any instrumentalization of this drama for political purposes," he said. France has "no lessons to receive from the reactionary international community," the minister said.

    Kushner is the father of Trump's son-in-law, Jared.

    A diplomatic riot has also emerged in Belgium with the United States. Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot has called the U.S. ambassador to Brussels, Bill White, after statements on social media.Not only in Belgium and France, the American ambassadors are stirring the pot: in Poland, Tom Rose argued with the parliament speaker after he said that Trump does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. He called that ruling "despicable, disrespectful and offensive" and it would "harm" the Polish government.

  • 'Totally Illegal,' Says Senate Dem as Trump Pledges $10 Billion in US Funds for His Board of Peace

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  • FedEx sues for refund of Trump tariffs, days after Supreme Court ruling

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  • Yeah Trump now you have to pay everyone back with all the country's money you laundered away from US and venezuela, and the corrupt deals you made with, among others, saudi arabia. Maybe you can still make some coin on the international trade you wanna set up with ruzzia. Hope he also has to pay back everyone he scammed with his bitcoins.

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    Donald Trump's Parents

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  • Is that phyllis schlafly?

  • EU says it will accept no increase in US tariffs after Supreme Court ruling: 'a deal is a deal'

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  • Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

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  • Zuckerberg had to testify last week 'in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta’s platforms deliberately addict and harm children' https://lemmy.world/post/43284616

  • Ousted South Korean president faces death penalty in insurrection case

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  • I truly dont get you lmao 😭

  • Ousted South Korean president faces death penalty in insurrection case

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  • Jup context info is bad ofcourse

  • Ousted South Korean president faces death penalty in insurrection case

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  • I do, context info for myself cause I dont know shit. If you dont like it idk not my problem? lmao

  • 'Totally Illegal,' Says Senate Dem as Trump Pledges $10 Billion in US Funds for His Board of Peace

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  • Thanks so much America for making Ruzzia richer SMH. Karoline even invited the Vatican to this board of peace because America wants a theocracy and not a secular society ig?

  • Mark Zuckerberg will testify today in California in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta’s platforms deliberately addict and harm children

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  • 😂😂

  • Fediverse

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  • How I wish peertube could become a good alternative for youtube but idk how that would ever be possible, with all the storage of big video files, maybe with torrents? idk