Lobbying from Meta. They do not want to do age-verification themselves (and pay for it).
replySee the actors behind this here (Meta is a big one):
https://tboteproject.com/
replyMeta is behind a huge amount of it, they have funded the majority of these
replyMeta is lobbying with millions for it.
replyBlue states: paternalism over your property, liberty for your body
replyRed states: paternalism over your body, liberty for your property
except for during covid, where there was a weird reversal.
replyI don't even know if that was much of a "reversal".
replyBlue states were paternalistic over both your property (business and social gathering shutdowns) and your body (masking, social distancing enforcement), while red states (particularly Texas, Florida) were very laissez-faire for both.
What's perplexing about this is that research has generally correlated higher amygdala activity (fear/worry) with political conservatism, and lower amygdala activity with political progressivism, but in this case, the effect seemed almost inverted.
In that case, I imagine that the response of mask mandates wasn't out of fear but was done do to the obvious benefit in controlling a disaster. The anti-masking movement is also I suspect a fear response. People are afraid of change, especially extremely visible change
replyFear of infectious diseases is inversely correlated with testosterone levels, and so is liberalism.
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