these companies don't profit off free expression. They profit off harvesting data. And the same investors

that invested in social media are also invested in these third-party identification companies,

especially Peter Thiel, right? Peter Thiel funded through Founders Fund Persona, the leading identity

verification platform that is used by Reddit, Roblox, Discord, etc. So they have their hand in both

pots. The same billionaires are getting rich off both systems.

The more commercially available data, the more big tech companies can actually profit. So this is not necessarily a bad thing for meta that this is all rolling out.

They just want to make sure that they're not the only ones that have to enact these sort of costly systems because they're costly.

And so the tech

industry has spent billions and billions of dollars lobbying, especially through front groups,

like this group called the Digital Childhood Alliance that goes on Instagram every day and

talks about the harms of big tech. Guess who funds the Digital Childhood Alliance? Meta. Guess

who's been heavily involved in advocating for all of these app level and

OS level identity verification systems? Meta. None of these people are operating in good faith.

No one cares about privacy is my point. But like the tech companies don't care about privacy.

The investors don't care about privacy. The only people that care about privacy are the ones affected

by these laws. But nobody's listening to them.

They don't have lobbies. They don't have these big front groups. They don't have people like Jonathan Haid,

who's pushing this moral panic about kids in tech and going out and espousing, you know,

the dangers of social media and getting parents all rallied. So it's just a really bad system.

If this was only happening to Meta, too, that would be bad,

but it wouldn't be what we're seeing. We're seeing across the board. At first, it happened to porn sites.

Now it's happening to social media. And well, now it's happening to the whole web. But it was like

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