• An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Sat Mar 14 06:40:09 2026
    Reddit user "Ok_Lingonberry3296" has posted the
    results of an extensive investigation into the companies that are
    pushing US state legislatures to enact age-verification bills.

    I've been pulling public records on the wave of "age verification"
    bills moving through US state legislatures. IRS 990 filings, Senate
    lobbying disclosures, state ethics databases, campaign finance
    records, corporate registries, WHOIS lookups, Wayback Machine
    archives. What started as curiosity about who was pushing these
    bills turned into documenting a coordinated influence operation
    that, from a privacy standpoint, is building surveillance
    infrastructure at the operating system level while the company
    behind it faces zero new requirements for its own platforms.

    (See also this article for a look at the
    California law.)

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1062779/
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