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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech

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Discussed a few days ago, 554 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528

(But it's a big enough story that I'm glad to see it on front page again.)

Comments moved thither. Thanks (and, er, sorry)!

I don't think that apology was needed... at least I can't figure out a reason for it. But thanks anyway (and sorry).

Well, merging the threads meant the story was off the frontpage again

Ahh, haha no worries!

Who is behind it? Doesn't seem to answer

Meta. Meta is behind Meta's 2B lobbying. Headline is crazy

> The European Union’s Digital Identity Wallet takes a radically different approach. Zero-knowledge proofs let you verify age without revealing personal data—like showing you’re over 18 without disclosing your birthdate or identity details

I'm not buying that "I am over 18, but I tell you this without revealing that I am over 18" is a real thing

[dupe] Discussion 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528

Ironic to post "[dupe]" as a dupe itself.

For some reason, this account posts little else. I don’t really get it.

Yeah, I've wondered about that before, but since it seems to more often than not be helpful I figured that even if the motivation was something lame like karma farming it does no harm.

I was just surprised this time since it seemed too pointless for human judgement to have been involved, yet too slow (4 hours later than my noticing it and searching for the thread I remembered seeing days before) to be a bot...

The only thing surprising is repeat-offender OP's low-quality submission and all of the repeat discussion of a large topic from less than a week ago. Keep putting the duplicate discussions up, keep finding us highlighting the previous discussion.

Sorry for doubting you! I had thought it possible someone had set up a dupe-commenting bot (and like I said before, I didn't object if that was what you'd done), and was too lazy to look into whether you were a real person or only posted the dupe comments.

But speaking as a random HN reader, I appreciate comments pointing out previous discussions :) (Though I don't think it's always a negative to have a dupe on a different day)

Just flagging it properly since ironically no one saw yours and kept filling the thread up with duplicate discussion.

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