Thanks to the FEC and OpenSecrets we're able to find who's lobbying and funding the age verification laws.
Interestingly enough it turns out the same entities are the largest funders of the UK Online Safety Act, California's Age-Appropriate Design Code, Digital Age Assurance Act and New York's SAFE for Kids Act. so here it is:
Oak Foundation funds:
- 5Rights Foundation (they run the Kids Code Coalition and are UK based)
- Fairplay
- Common Sense Media
Oak Foundation is funded solely by Alan M. Parker the British billionaire who co-founded Duty Free Shoppers.
Common Sense Media (one of Oak's funded orgs) is also independently funded by:
- Bezos Family Foundation
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)
- Gates Foundation
- Dell Foundation
- Craig Newmark Philanthropies
- Hewlett Foundation
- Tom Steyer / Kat Taylor
Combined, the funding flowing into this advocacy ecosystem exceeds $100M/year.
Now you know.
#privacy #nowyouknow #infosec #identity #security #linux_gaming
"5Rights Foundation (they run the Kids Code Coalition and are UK based)"Which means they are a front group or cutout puppet for British intelligence agencies.
"Gates Foundation"Bill Gates is a Knight of the British Empire. He has been granted a foreign title of nobility, and should have been deported from the United States immediately, along with everyone else who accepts dual citizenship or nobility of any kind.
a project to create a us monopoli of information ...
something only morons and traitors can subscribe to outside of the us ...
I need to make a correction: we do not actually know whether Oak is funded solely by Alan and his family, as the foundation is based in Switzerland and its funding sources are not fully transparent.
Apologies for the earlier error.
@kstrlworks your reply explaining why you deleted your post (which is still up on my end) hasn’t federated yet, but this is in response to that, do you think you could get this information out some other way?
@shroomie Some of my employees received death threats.
At the end of the day, we’re a Linux software development company, not a newsroom, and nobody on my team signed up to deal with that kind of harassment, especially not over their boss’s personal side research project.
Because of that, I took the post down. The earlier posts are still available if you want to reuse any of the information, but I’m stepping back from this topic to protect my team’s safety.
@kstrlworks i mean. i was thinking maybe you could give some indie news like 404 media or smthn an anonymous tip