Source: https://xcancel.com/vxunderground/status/2032600868005310638#m
Yeah, so basically the current prevailing schizo internet theory is that AI nerds have destroyed the internet and created infinite spam.
The advertisement goons are now incapable of determining who is a bot and who is an actual human. The advertisement goons no longer want to pay as much to social media networks.
Social media networks, in full blown panic of losing potential revenue, decided to lobby governments saying “we gotta protect the kids! ID everyone to protect the kids from pedophiles!”.
The social media networks know this doesn’t really protect kids. But, it does two things (and a third accidentally).
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They now can identify who is human and who is AI slop machine, or enough to appease the advertisement goons
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Advertising to children is a general no-no from politicians, or something, so with ID verification they can say with confidence they’re not advertising to children because it’s been ID verification. Basically, they can weed out the children and focus on advertising to adults
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The feds can now tell who is human and who is AI slop. This inadvertently helps them with tracking people and serving fresh daily dumps of propaganda, or whatever they want to do.
It’s a win-win-win for advertisers, social media networks, the government, and any business which does data collections.
It fucks over everyone else.
Chat, I’m not going to lie to you. This is an extremely good conspiracy schizo theory and I unironically believe it.
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This isn’t even a conspiracy theory, it’s been investigated and found to be mostly true.
I never thought about it until I clicked on this link, but repositories are actually a really good format for investigative journalism. Allows you to organize all the supporting documents alongside the article in an organized way.
It’s great for most written things in society.
Laws? Oh yes, please.
Any official communication? Thank you.
Even mundane things like cooking guides would benefit from history and versioning. Imagine entire family sending their branches for favourite pie/turkey/whatever else.
Grandma’s brunch grits git branch
It’s not even a conspiracy, it’s just corporations and politicians behaving according to individual incentives and communicating about it publicly with a basic level of indirectness to avoid outrage.
That’s actually vx-underground source for this post: https://xcancel.com/vxunderground/status/2032562782248349793#m
This is just the beginning.
You think it’s just about ID?
Politicians in both the UK and Australia have spoken about banning VPNs, because VPNs have been used to avoid age verification in those countries.
If you want to see where we’re going, look no farther than Russia’s Internet. Which is currently much worse than China’s.
So be prepared for your service to be degraded to unusability.
I don’t think anyone relevant in Australia has yet suggested banning VPNs. Too much gov infrastructure runs on them.
Posted on Twitter lmfao
Second to make all advertising illegal
How is this a theory? This is literally what’s happening lol
Even if it’s not advertising itself pushing it, the rest of what was said is true.
I don’t love the word schizo, but otherwise I am on board
The advertisement goons are now incapable of determining who is a bot and who is an actual human.
Bullshit. Social networks track the living shit out of everyone and know exactly what’s human traffic and what isn’t. Device identifiers (user agent, IP ranges, browser fingerprint, (lack of) ad id, etc.) and behavioral patterns (including purchase history) differ wildly.
Advertising to children is a general no-no from politicians, or something,
Bullshit. Even advertising to kids were outlawed (it isn’t), politicians could be just bought off by advertisers to turn a blind eye. This is particularly true for the land of their formerly free and home of the formerly brave where corruption is now an above-the-counter item, practiced out in the open by the president himself.
Bullshit. Social networks track the living shit out of everyone and know exactly what’s human traffic and what isn’t. Device identifiers (user agent, IP ranges, browser fingerprint, (lack of) ad id, etc.) and behavioral patterns (including purchase history) differ wildly.
https://github.com/xvzc/SpoofDPI plus a browser fingerprinting blocker.
I thought land of the free and home of the brave was Scotland
and we have upcoming android lockdown👌
Plausible considering it’s been shown that meta is the one responsible for lobbying this shit
This is not a conspiracy. Look at who funded the bill, who wrote it, and who funded the opposition to the bill in each state. Every time one of these passes, each legislating body already has the votes the need to pass before the actual bill material surfaces.
Meta has reportedly funneled over $65 million into a network of four primary super PACs to manage this state-by-state strategy. While they appear distinct on paper to “scatter filings” and avoid centralized FEC scrutiny, they are managed by the same leadership: Brian Baker (a veteran GOP strategist) and the Democratic consulting firm Hilltop Public Solutions.
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American Technology Excellence Project (ATEP): The national “umbrella” super PAC that serves as the primary funding hub.
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Forge the Future Project: The GOP-focused arm, active in states like Texas, Florida, and Utah. It frames the legislation as a “parental rights” and “pro-family” issue.
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Making Our Tomorrow: The Democratic-focused arm, active in Illinois and California. It frames the same legislation as “tech accountability” and “corporate responsibility.”
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Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across California (META PAC): A California-specific PAC focused on protecting Meta’s interests in its home state, particularly regarding AI and child safety regulations.
The “Shadow” Advocate: Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA)
The group providing the “boots on the ground” testimony for these bills is the Digital Childhood Alliance. Investigations have found that:
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Legal Status: The DCA reportedly has no EIN, no IRS registration, and no incorporation records. It is essentially a “ghost organization” or astroturf group.
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The Meta Link: Internal filings and investigative reports confirmed the DCA is almost entirely funded by Meta, though its website and testimonies never disclose this.
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The Mission: They are launching Proof-of-Personhood for exactly the reasons specified in this post. By integrating a unique identifier at the OS-level, they are effectively killing the VPN. Soon websites will start requiring that unique identifier to view “adult” content in order to comply with the government.
How will this data be used? I’ll let you speculate, but let me reassure you that privacy is dead and a bunch of know-nothing geriatric pigs come up with a new way to destroy democracy every day.
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I think it’s probably not being pushed because of those things (though they are certainly possible outcomes), and more about the fact that they can just… scrape up a bunch of data about you in general.
Now they know your name, age, race, birthday, and can correlate that all with data brokers if they want more. Ad targeting becomes easier, thus making them more money. Simple as that.
I don’t like this theory because they have already had access to this information with social media. Individuals willingly volunteer this information about themselves and their friends, and data brokers would collect and centralize it from multiple sources. This is why some platforms were trying out AI age verification in countries that hadn’t officially mandated ID verification yet. They were confident enough, with all the info they had already collected, to assume someone’s age. They would hope that the people who fail the check would be few enough to not cause an immediate uproar(“just verify with ID, what’s the big deal?”)
This is most certainly more of an authoritarian power grab to prevent any anonymous criticism what so ever. Id verification will allow them to target any application that does not comply and preserves user privacy. Anyone who does not comply will be implied to be a criminal or enemy of the state. They want to make a system where corporate surveillance cannot be avoided.
The corporations lobbying for this want to benefit from being a part of the fascist state, but don’t want to handle any legal obligation or public scrutiny from the obvious damages that will come from collecting this information. That’s why you have different companies lobbying for different “solutions”; whatever keeps them from facing repercussions but still makes them money for being a part of the surveillance state is what they will support.
I mean AI goons are destroying the internet and open source, that much is true.
I like how they call everything conspiracy theories these days. Yeah, nothing to see here, just wanna protect children… :)
I absolutely believe this
It makes more sense than it doesn’t.
Maybe not as shadow cabal type of collusion, but as the path of least resistance that all these entities would find themselves going down independently… at the same time.
