Subj : An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills
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From : LWN.net
Date : Fri Mar 13 2026 14:15:06

An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills

Date:
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:09:58 +0000

Description:
Reddit user "Ok_Lingonberry3296" has posted the
results of an extensive investigation into the companies that are
pushing US state legislatures to enact age-verification bills. I've been 
pulling public records on the wave of "age verification"
	bills moving through US state legislatures. IRS 990 filings, Senate
	lobbying disclosures, state ethics databases, campaign finance
	records, corporate registries, WHOIS lookups, Wayback Machine
	archives. What started as curiosity about who was pushing these
	bills turned into documenting a coordinated influence operation
	that, from a privacy standpoint, is building surveillance
	infrastructure at the operating system level while the company
	behind it faces zero new requirements for its own platforms. (See 
also this article for a look at the
California law.)

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1062779/


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