How EU digital identity rules and Google's restrictive policies threaten the future of privacy-focused Android operating systems like GrapheneOS.

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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

has anyone questioned who is behind all this age verification all over the place, including forcing the credit card bans of the games, on one reddit post, someone said russel vought is behind all of this, but i cant find anymore info other than the post.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The credit card game bans are all coming from one Australian Religious group.

    Similar Astroturf groups are being used to create fake grassroots community groups to PrOtEcT tHe ChIlDrEn.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think it's not so true. MasterCard wanted an excuse to do this anyways. You can tell because the bigger backlash does not sway them at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I think there is an ounce of truth in that, but Corporations don’t “want” things. Investors want dividends and ROI. Executives want golden handshakes. Employees want a pay cheque.

    Someone is financing the Astroturf campaigns. Someone is directing who they lobby.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's a cooperation between:

    • religious fundamentalist christian groups, many of which done some rebranding to appeal at least somewhat secular (Collective Shout, NCOSE - formerly Morality In Media, or even the European CitizenGo), while others are still primarily religious fundamentalists (Exodus Cry, Seven Mountain Dominion),
    • big tech companies like Google, who want to tie their users' data to real identities, want to lock down their ecosystems even more, and don't really care about potential bans under a far-right christian theocracy as long as they benefit from it economically and finacially.
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    It just happens that those people pushing for it happen to be extremely religious. Nothing to see here, if we ever got our rights back and not everything will go to crap, we don't have to set up provisions so that a small religious extremist minority cannot get hold on our governments. In fact, those christian extremists weren't "real christians", they just pretended to be one, because my interpretation of the bible only include the good parts and I ignore the bad parts.

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