[jkoebler]

I'm the author of this article—both CTIA and CompTIA are lobbying against these bills, but CompTIA is the most actively outspoken.

If you are a member of CompTIA or certified by them or have any thoughts about them please reach out to me (my Twitter DMs are open: twitter.com/jason_koebler ... are Signal numbers allowed on here?), because I'm working on a deeper investigation about the group's shift from a certifications body to a lobbying arm of big tech.

[def8cefe]

I'm CompTIA A+ certified. It cost me $0 (paid for by an employer when I was 16) and I think I overpaid.

I'm not sure that they have shifted away from being a certification body, they still issue a lot of certifications. I don't think they are considered very valuable certifications though.

There is nothing in the guidelines that says you can't post a cell number, I think you're good.

[westmeal]

I was certified as well, anybody could do this sort of thing it's just a scam to take money away from you so you can get a shitty IT job somewhere. Interesting that they lobby extensively though - I had no idea.