This is happening in too many countries for it to just be coincidence. Who is pushing it, why, and how do we get rid of them? [Edit for typo]
I heard Facebook was funding this in the US. Not sure if they’re responsible for it elsewhere too. It’s basically Five Eyes countries doing this, so you can bet it’s to do with their surveillance efforts. How do we stop it? First step is not to comply. Do not complete any age verification. If you are absolutely forced to, at least lodge complaints about it. If you are still required to, try to avoid giving any data, e.g. use a pre-recorded video of someone else or a videogame character to pass the age check. Second step is to use and support alternative platforms that avoid such measures.
Maybe it’s time to de-digitize and go back outdoors and read paper books.
My life would not be worse without car videos.
Definitely. It would make life better in so many ways if everyone did this.
Meta is funding age verification efforts, not social media bans. Those do two different things. Meta doesn’t want to prevent young people from accessing social media, they just want cover for when they get sued for allowing minors to access certain things, so age verification laws pass the buck to the government.
I’m convinced social media bans are primarily driven by the Zionist lobby, as well as others who want to see access to information limited (the rich and powerful writ large, as they have much harder time controlling social media than they do traditional media). An entire generation across the globe despises Israel as they watched a genocide live-streamed to them via social media. So they want to cut off the youth’s access to information to prevent that from ever happening again.
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Peter Theil is Palantir, and he holds Vance’s leash. He LITERALLY owns Vance. If Vance becomes president, Theil is in charge.
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It’s Meta.
Probably the WEF or another of those huge capitalist organisations you hear recurring in tinfoil hat conspiracies.
Meta is funding massive non profit groups lobbying for it at the OS level in the name of child safety. If there’s going to be age verification anyways they don’t want to pay for it, and want to benefit from the better ad targeting.
I think the reason is the upcoming world war. When you want to make people fight, you need to restrict their freedom
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WTF? They ALL know that not a single citizen in any country, anywhere in the world wants this, and yet they are all forcing it to happen.
We may hav to kill every politician, and burn down every government to make things normal in this world again.
They get into politics because they are obsessed with control.
We probably need a system were politicians are not actually in control. Then they might be some who doesn’t get into it just because they want to mandate other people what they can or cannot do.
At this point, selecting random people off the street would result in a healthier democracy. Politicians have room to be dumb and evil, because they inherited money and social connections. A rando would have to be actually skilled if they want to obtain such things.
Introducing Athenian democracy: Place your name on a paper slip. Place that slip in a big bag. If your name gets pulled, congrats: You are now a politician for an allotted time. Also works with marble slips for extra flair.
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Government doesn’t exist to fulfill the wishes of individuals. Its goal is securing the collective national well-being of the country as a whole - something no given group of individuals can do. And when there’s a threat to country’s survival (which is probably the upcoming World War Three in this case), the collective interest comes to oppose the individual freedom because suddenly everyone becomes very dependant on one another.
That being said, I don’t support those measures. What I’m saying is the problem is deeper than bad government.
Can you explain in a little more detail how enforcing online ID prevents WW3? Genuinely curious. The only thing I think of that national online ID might help with is counter intelligence, especially in defense against psyops. However, in the few cases that we do know about psyops toppling elections, e.g., Brexit, these were performed on behalf of or with the aid of party and government officials in the affected countries. If any, this would become easier, because widespread online ID silents dissenting voices, while well-financed entities can navigate and / or circumvent such regulation (also see, for example, the effect of GDPR on the market structure of attention merchants in Europe).
I don’t think it can prevent WW3. Rather it’ll help oppress internal opposition to forced enlisting, reducing democracy and other governmental decisions regarding defense in the war.
How could the internet possibly be any more censored? What is the benefit of age verification? Back in the 90s & 00s we had infinite websites for anybody who could make them about anything they could imagine and now all we have is Facebook and Instagram and youtube. How could they possibly censor the internet anymore than it already is? In fact they don’t even let us use the internet anymore, everything is a data-harvesting app now.
It isn’t about protecting children. This is the Epstein class we’re talking about here. Protecting kids is the excuse they’re using in order to gain more control. The real purpose behind it is to usher in digital ID and create a total surveillance state. We need to fight like hell against it
