alt Hacker News> Zuck and tech as a whole pivoted to drop safety investments the moment this government came to power.
I think the question to ask here is, if both Meta and the current administration don't care about child safety, why is the age verification stuff going so smoothly? Is helping them do this really the right move?
Well it’s not going smoothly. People on HN are talking about it now, but they are really talking about privacy.
For the rest of the world this has been brewing for more than a decade.
Australia was the actually the one to tip the first domino. This is just a US state verdict on willful harm by a firm. Its not even about age verification.
For meta, shifting regulatory burdens to OS / app stores, reduces regulatory burden.
For governments, part of it is actually trying to come to grips with an impossible safety imperative and another part of it is happy to gain more control and power.
The power grab needs to be curtailed, and the people actually trying to help kids need better technical solutions.