RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116408570508360596
According to https://tboteproject.com/ it's Meta and The Heritage Foundation behind the voter ID laws. Which ok, put surveillance capitalism social network + lead conservative thinktank together, that would make sense. I would love to see a separate org which has reviewed their work and research and can confirm or deny that research though, especially since (even according to the author of the site) a lot of that research was vibecoded.
We don't know who's funding this stuff for sure, there was the vibecoded analysis that came to the conclusion of Meta, but I suspect that could be true but Meta wouldn't be alone.
Who stands to benefit from this? A lot of forces of centralization, and anti-LGBTQ orgs:
- Microsoft, for sure, since they are seeing Windows' dominance threatened?
- Apple, for similar reasons?
- Peter Theil and similar surveillance company owners and operators?
- Anti-queer orgs and think tanks like the Heritage Foundation?
- Cloudflare, who will probably run the age verification paywalls everyone will be forced to deploy?
Who's behind this? Who's getting politicians so excited about it? There's such a swell of bipartisan support seemingly out of nowhere, and my suspicion is a lot of that enthusiasm is coming from check-writing.
So who's behind it?
