Oh look, the Heritage Foundation, the ones who wrote up the "Project 2025" agenda for most of the corruption and authoritarianism that has plagued America in the last year.

The very last people you should trust when it comes to "protecting the children."

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bluescrn 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To me it feels that the age verfication (adult de-anonymisation) push, at least in Europe, is coming more from the increasingly-authoritarian left as a reaction to the rise of the online right and Musk's Twitter.

(Maybe some unspoken element of concern over social media bots, too - as they evolve from spamming copy+pasted comments to being near-indistinguisable from actual human accounts?)

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malfist an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If you look at the people pushing these bills it's the anti-trans and anti-porn activists. Not the left.

	▲	phendrenad2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		In Europe though? You have those?

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dv_dt an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It would be interesting to see a similar lobbying breakdown for the EU and UK. I bet it's still Meta with other right wing actors. The left rarely has the money for this kind of lobbying scale

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turbinemonkey 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Heritage has been laying waste to America my whole life. They basically planned all of Reagan's legislative agenda, too, just like Project 2025 is doing today. In very real ways, they and their vision are America (a system is what it does, not what it says it does).