100% correct. And the worst part is that the masses have no idea. I figure I’ve got about 10-15 years left on this planet; maybe I’ll get lucky and live long enough to see the collapse.
Maybe I should resubmit my vault application…
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Luckily here I am on a Saturday night with my computer and high speed internet!
Drink up. I’ll be doing cocaine with the clown man (RIP Keybreak) when it finally hits. The world will be a better place. I really try to have hope for the world. . . But everyday the we hear a whole lot of noise from people who prove the only way forward is a planet without humans.
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“But we can’t stop this world from it’s / Crash and burn”
I’d rather have an asteroid or meteor do it than the people you refer to that would keep us on our knees (line stolen from Andy partridge).
Four years ago I was in a discussion and a 17 year old kid told me “it would be a better world if we just gave the internet back to the geeks.”
–I had a glimmer of hope 
I never forgot that.
Do a long fat line for me 
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I don’t even like the stuff. It just smells good.
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I’d not heard that one…. but wow. Wouldn’t it!
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It’s been an interesting ride, to say the least, watching the internet migrate from the government to education to enthusiasts to businesses…and now more and more going back to governments. My first experience was with pre-internet FIDONet; never in a million years did I envision what’s it’s become. BBS’s were cool - nothing like the anti-social media crap of today.
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Update: Added US SCREEN Act, Ireland playing big brother and Mexicos Biometric stuff above.
Also found a guy commeting somewhere (i forgot where) saying in iran they use this to bypass their vpn ban. since their ISP is banning pretty much all vpn websites and servers and all… idk what to make of it, or if its save or not but maybe its interesting, idk…
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personal comment:
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and not E V E R Y T H I N G goes only in one direction:
And dear members of that not last free space on the net still there we are all here still fighting. And in every second there is someone working resolving freedom. If it is not the internet we will find another way of communication or simply another protocol invented by people like you.
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I need to start training carrier pigeons.
I’m going to stock up on pens before the written word is outlawed so you must use internet sanctioned computers to communicate.
Very impressive Germany. Good luck! It’ll be the server build nation. Everyone will move their stuff there.
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assuming they don’t round up the independent and free-thinking non-sheep first for Happy Camp
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Haha how humorous 
But seriously we soon need to do something like that 
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Guess we need warp-speed pigeons, I want 1 GBit/s! I mean, come on, RFC 1149 is now already more than 35 years old…
(Is someone already secretly breeding them?)
Update: added youtube banning vpns…
also this guy made a video i think its good
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Also we all know they always use safety of the children and protection against terrorism as a reason to take more of our freedoms.
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And similar to the topic at hand although not specifically the online safety act, is this old post by The Tor Project.
In terms of these online acts, and how what Tor lists here is relevant, is these acts are not to “protect children” but to “protect the government from it’s citizens” down to what you can search, write, whistleblower and journalist safety, or even bloggers getting in trouble for writing what is deemed the wrong thing or making government or law enforcement look bad by calling out crimes.
But it essentially underlines how privacy being breached in this way by a government, or privacy in general invaded by companies like big tech can be bad for different types of people, especially the more censored a country becomes. This link is not me saying to use Tor but just showing the points they list.
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Case and point - UK Censorship in conjunction with Online Act.
And this could easily spread to any country implementing similar laws.
- Use of the law has restricted a comment from an April parliamentary speech from an MP criticising the government. In this case it’s a comment regarding the governments refusal to hold a national inquiry in to rape gangs.
- So our government insults people against this act as on the side of predators, while at the same time hiding people who care about these issues and criticising the government to do better.
- Another censor from a post made by another MP is linking a resignation statement from Coventry Councillor, it was age restricted with no explanation. But my guess is something in that statement doesn’t make the government look good.
- Also worth noting our government suggested a while back to allow the age of voting to be lowered to age 16, but this age check will restrict this information for them as they wouldn’t be 18 yet.
- Even if you are 18 and the voting age stays the same, you cannot vote properly with all information and context if it’s been blocked during your years prior to being 18.
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I saw this video too as well.
One other thing it mentioned is how gamers in the UK bypass the age check by using camera mode in a video game and then moving it to verify a face.
Mostly mentioning this since in an older comment I made above I listed a bunch of ways people in the UK have been tricking the verification, and this is just another thing being used I wasn’t aware of, and people under 18 especially are bound to own a game that could work for this.
Even Gary’s Mod worked for this and that game is owned by many, legal for almost anyone to play and buy, and isn’t even known for high graphical detail and yet still worked and the varification included moving the head as well as opening the mouth etc. Timestamp for this is 6:40, and at 6:20 another game Death Stranding photo mode of a characters face worked too.
Unfortunately this does mean the government will likely get annoyed and issue a Digital ID similar to driving license instead.
Eh, I have this included since the beginning in the main post…
But it’s ok, easy to miss…