Em :official_verified: on Nostr: Lobbyists are influencing policies more than experts and advocates 💰🧵 ...

Lobbyists are influencing policies more than experts and advocates 💰🧵

Unfortunately, there are many groups that are putting pressure on governments all around the world to increase surveillance under the guise of protecting the children. The rapidly growing, for-profit, age assurance industry has all to gain in influencing governments to push for age verification processes and bans of social media for children.

Even Meta has reportedly invested heavily in a network of organisations to discreetly lobby for age verification at the operating system level.

Meanwhile, nonprofit organisations and advocates who genuinely care for the well-being of the public have been warning for years about the dangers of age verification and social media ban legislation, but have much less money and power to influence policies at the government level.

I implore you, as the elected representatives for all Canadians, to consider this threat of corporate influence cautiously in your decisions, to listen to the warnings from advocates and experts in the field, and to prioritize first and foremost the well-being and safety of all Canadians.

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