I hear meta’s also funding a lot of the lobbying behind all the digital ID laws because all the LLM fakes are destroying its personal data revenue.
They’ve been pushing it for ages, especially the “ID yourself for adult content” laws.
It’s partly to indeed combat the AI/machine noise of the internet, but also to improve their own dataset of people. What kind of porn you watch. What kind of “adult” products you buy (soon to include knives, kitchen and garden tools, etc., because “blade”), they want to know EVERYTHING.
Not just so your ads can be targeted, but because these companies want to replace governments, and that data will be extremely useful to push people into specific roles.
Oh, you’re a rebellious anarchist? Well enjoy the shitty life or we tell people about your kinks - and I 100% guarantee there will be fabricated ones too. Everyone has secrets, and these companies want to learn them all to have absolute control over you.
There are many reasons for that.
Meta wants to choose which regulations are applied to all social media platforms because they know which regulations they and their competition can/not easily comply with. They want to make themselves look trustworthy for regulating themselves, while mitigating AI scrapers and fake accounts throwing off their engagement metrics, while giving themselves very lax regulations, while also weaponizing our government to apply burdensome regulations to their competitors.
Mostly they wanted to push the responsibility onto someone else.
But they wont and our pedo government will just go “heh, nah”
Waiting for the day meta gets erased from existence.
I assume this will result in a slap on the wrist and maybe some lawyers will make a bunch of money but the people harmed will get like a dollar and Meta will view this as the ‘cost of doing business’ and just harder to not get caught next time. These types of things have to be company ending for them to keep people in line…
How are they going to wriggle out of it this time?
violations of state consumer protection law
Then presidential pardon is not an option.
From my understanding, only federal criminal charges (and convictions) can be pardoned anyway, whereas I believe this is a state civil case (a lawsuit).
MOAR
