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We need to stop using industry-friendly PR terms like “age verification” and call it what it is: Digital ID

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“Digital ID is being scrapped.” Is it? Because Digital ID was never just one app or one card. The World Economic Forum described it in 2018 as an ecosystem. And that ecosystem is already here. Most people are already using parts of it: • One Login • Making Tax Digital • NHS App verification • eVisas • Companies House ID checks • Online banking biometrics • Face ID & fingerprints • Digital payments • Digital tickets • Age verification • Digital driving licence being developed You don’t need one “Digital ID” app to have a digital identity system. It’s been built piece by piece. So if Digital ID is being “scrapped”… what exactly is being scrapped? Because the technology, the systems and the infrastructure are already in everyday life.

Melissa Ciummei

14,127 views • 28 days ago

The social media age ban is failing, because it is bad policy. We need to amp up the pressure on the government. Let parents parent. No to age verification to use social media. No to Digital ID. Yes to free speech. Yes to privacy.

The social media age ban is failing, because it is bad policy. We need to amp up the pressure on the government. Let parents parent. No to age verification to use social media. No to Digital ID. Yes to free speech. Yes to privacy.

Matthew Camenzuli

18,908 views • 10 months ago

Today we are proposing a new Age Verification system for Digital EU 🇪🇺 . No need for face or ID verification, with 100% accuracy. Nyach Linux using an advanced AI algorithms managed to create the most reliable and secure age predictor. My 0yr old nephew's test attached.

Today we are proposing a new Age Verification system for Digital EU 🇪🇺 . No need for face or ID verification, with 100% accuracy. Nyach Linux using an advanced AI algorithms managed to create the most reliable and secure age predictor. My 0yr old nephew's test attached.

NyarchLinux

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🚨 Digital Dystopia: An Investigative Film on Global Digital Surveillance This film explains the digital ID system like never before. From China’s social-credit system to the West’s growing digital-ID programs. Digital Dystopia exposes how the world’s citizens are being drawn into an age of total surveillance - and what we can still do to stop it. Watch and share!

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Freedom Research

90,023 views • 6 months ago

“Age verification” is being sold as protection. When in reality, it requires your ID to access the internet and opens the door to widespread surveillance. What do you think age verification should be re-branded as?

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FULU

21,837 views • 3 months ago

Starmer telling nation this is ‘about our values - and will bring us together’ By imposing forced Digital ID verification & spyware on all adults? Millions rejected digital id. Then cavalierly dismisses question from Christopher Hope📝 that it will harm free speech We will not stop fighting this authoritarian imposition of digital ID verification on all

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Alan D Miller

40,803 views • 2 months ago

💸 Age verification is the cover story. A national digital ID embedded in every device is the goal. says once it connects to CBDC, they control everything.

💸 Age verification is the cover story. A national digital ID embedded in every device is the goal. says once it connects to CBDC, they control everything.

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19,313 views • 4 months ago

Congress is trying to ram through 18 mass censorship and surveillance bills. CALL UR REPS and tell them: —NO to KOSA —NO to Section 230 reform —NO online digital ID laws —NO age verification laws —NO to the SCREEN Act —NO to the App Store Accountability Act (digital ID system)

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354,110 views • 8 months ago

KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through. CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM —no KOSA —do not repeal Section 230 —no online digital ID laws —no age verification laws CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet

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322,618 views • 8 months ago

Section 230 is exactly why platforms can ignore digital violence and online abuse like this. I know this firsthand. I was a victim of the 2014 iCloud hack, and were uploaded to sites like Motherless without my consent. It took years of fighting to remove that content—while it continued to spread. That’s the problem. Takedowns happen after the damage is done. The Protect Act fixes this at the source. It requires age and consent verification for uploaders to adult platforms, stopping digital violence before it begins. We don’t need better cleanup. We need prevention.

Section 230 is exactly why platforms can ignore digital violence and online abuse like this. I know this firsthand. I was a victim of the 2014 iCloud hack, and were uploaded to sites like Motherless without my consent. It took years of fighting to remove that content—while it continued to spread. That’s the problem. Takedowns happen after the damage is done. The Protect Act fixes this at the source. It requires age and consent verification for uploaders to adult platforms, stopping digital violence before it begins. We don’t need better cleanup. We need prevention.

Uldouz

11,280 views • 4 months ago

Joe Rogan: "In the UK you need a digital ID to combat — ready for it — illegal immigration. Well, motherf*cker you let the illegal immigrants in on purpose. You guys knew what you were doing and now you’re using it as a justification for digital ID."

Joe Rogan: "In the UK you need a digital ID to combat — ready for it — illegal immigration. Well, motherf*cker you let the illegal immigrants in on purpose. You guys knew what you were doing and now you’re using it as a justification for digital ID."

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103,898 views • 5 months ago

Digital ID is coming to Canada. It will soon be mandatory to collect welfare and unemployment—but we all know, it won’t stop there. Convenience is the bait. Control is the catch.

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BlendrNews

26,328 views • 9 months ago

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Heritage Foundation

930,937 views • 6 months ago

Her message is 100% correct. We need to call it what it is, its a double standard.

Her message is 100% correct. We need to call it what it is, its a double standard.

Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱

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Trump stopped illegal immigration WITHOUT Digital ID. We don't need it!

Trump stopped illegal immigration WITHOUT Digital ID. We don't need it!

June Slater

114,685 views • 11 months ago

Having to do it through the actual battle menus is what we in the industry call "Cinema"

Having to do it through the actual battle menus is what we in the industry call "Cinema"

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Using the same energy we use to call out vigilante groups to stop harassing African immigrants with documents we also need to call out some Nigerians like this girl fake crying using a filter and saying Nigerians are being killed like chickens in South Africa 🇿🇦 , these lies cause unnecessary conflicts and hatred , can she provide a list of people killed ? …STOP IT

Using the same energy we use to call out vigilante groups to stop harassing African immigrants with documents we also need to call out some Nigerians like this girl fake crying using a filter and saying Nigerians are being killed like chickens in South Africa 🇿🇦 , these lies cause unnecessary conflicts and hatred , can she provide a list of people killed ? …STOP IT

The Instigator

13,898 views • 3 months ago

🚩🚩Please read sign this petition asking for a FULL public consultation on digital ID to stop authoritarianist over reach. One only has to see what is happening in the UK, and soon Australia (which rolls out age verification in December) and multiple other countries to realise this has nothing to do with keeping children safe, but everything to do with control of what you do, what you say and eventually over sight of every aspect of your life. The bureaucrats and the Govt are banking on your lack of tech literacy and extensive use of gaslighting. Age verification will necessitate centralising your biometric data in order FOR ANYONE to use the internet. This is the mass on boarding process towards full blown Digital ID and digital currency. When the UN, World Bank, WEF, Blackrock, Helen Clark, Tony Blair, Bill Gates, The Bank for international Settlements, Albanese and Keir Starmer are lobbying for Digital ID its a pretty whopping big clue. National, Labour, Greens have said they’ll work together to pass legislation for age verification and digital ID. This is a total disaster. Watch the video. Winston Peters on fighting against Digital ID & global overreach. Petition here :

🚩🚩Please read sign this petition asking for a FULL public consultation on digital ID to stop authoritarianist over reach. One only has to see what is happening in the UK, and soon Australia (which rolls out age verification in December) and multiple other countries to realise this has nothing to do with keeping children safe, but everything to do with control of what you do, what you say and eventually over sight of every aspect of your life. The bureaucrats and the Govt are banking on your lack of tech literacy and extensive use of gaslighting. Age verification will necessitate centralising your biometric data in order FOR ANYONE to use the internet. This is the mass on boarding process towards full blown Digital ID and digital currency. When the UN, World Bank, WEF, Blackrock, Helen Clark, Tony Blair, Bill Gates, The Bank for international Settlements, Albanese and Keir Starmer are lobbying for Digital ID its a pretty whopping big clue. National, Labour, Greens have said they’ll work together to pass legislation for age verification and digital ID. This is a total disaster. Watch the video. Winston Peters on fighting against Digital ID & global overreach. Petition here :

Holyhekatuiteka

40,795 views • 9 months ago

In a football terms, what do we call it ?😂

In a football terms, what do we call it ?😂

CHIZZY_BB

57,903 views • 5 months ago