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1/ "Online Child Safety Acts" are being passed in every state, every country, every legislature on Earth — all at the same time, all using the same language, all promising to protect your children.

These laws are NOT what you think they are.
2/ Ask yourself one question. If lawmakers actually wanted to protect children online, why did they reject every solution that would have actually worked?

They could have banned the algorithms that push self-harm content to teenage girls within minutes of signup.

They could have banned infinite scroll, autoplay, and targeted advertising to minors.

They didn't.
3/ They could have empowered parents with the tools that already exist on every smartphone, every router, every computer.

They could have implemented device-side age verification — proposed by Apple — that flags a child's device without surveilling every adult.

They could have used cryptographic age proofs that verify age without identity disclosure.

They rejected all of it.
4/ Instead, they chose the one option that requires every man, woman, and grandmother on the internet to verify their identity to the government before reading a news article, posting an opinion, or participating in modern life.

When the stated solution doesn't match the stated problem, the stated problem was never the real reason.
5/ The real reason is identity. Universal, mandatory, government-verified digital identity.

That is what these laws build. Children are the cover story. Total surveillance is the goal.

And once that identity infrastructure exists, it does not stop at age verification. It cannot.
6/ The same system that requires your ID for social media will require your ID for banking. For healthcare. For employment. For travel. For every basic function of civic life.

This is not speculation. It is the published roadmap of the WEF, the EU digital identity wallet program, and UN SDG 16.9.
7/ We already saw the preview during COVID. Bank accounts frozen for political donations. Small businesses destroyed for noncompliance. Doctors silenced. Journalists deplatformed. Grandmothers arrested for praying.

That was without the full digital control infrastructure. Imagine what comes next when it's complete.
8/ Now picture your child growing up in that world.

Every word she ever posts permanently linked to her identity. A single post at 15 used to deny her employment at 35. Every purchase logged and scored. Compliance rewarded. Dissent punished automatically.

She won't feel oppressed. She'll simply have learned what's safe to think.
9/ The architects of this system know exactly what they're doing.

They are the same class of people who flew to a private island to abuse children — and were never prosecuted. The same institutions that shielded that network. The same people who silenced the whistleblowers.

They are now telling you they want to protect your children.
10/ Privacy is the foundation of every other right.

Without privacy, free speech dies — because you self-censor. Freedom of religion dies — because beliefs are tracked. Freedom of the press dies — because every source is identifiable.

If privacy falls, every other liberty falls with it. They know this. That's why they're targeting it first.
11/ Refuse the premise. Government has no authority to require ID as a precondition for your fundamental rights.

Demand the alternatives. Make legislators answer why they rejected every option that would protect children without surveilling adults.

Empower yourself. Use parental controls that already exist. Be the parent the platforms try to replace.

Get private. Speak up. Wake up your neighbors. The system requires your compliance to be built. Withdraw it.
12/ Follow me here for more on the digital control grid and how to stop it.

Share this thread far and wide. Send it to anyone who supports "online child safety" laws. Use it as your response to any politician or commentator pushing this agenda.

And go to PrivacyAcademy.com to sign up for our newsletter. If I ever get deplatformed — and on a topic this important, that is a real possibility — the newsletter is how we stay connected.

Liberty doesn't die in dramatic moments. It dies in quiet legislative sessions while good people are too busy to ask the right questions.

This is the moment. These are the laws. This is the generation that decides whether our children grow up free.

Preserve Liberty by Preserving Privacy.

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May 8
🧵 THREAD

1/ You did everything right.

You installed parental controls on every device. Set screen time limits. Blocked inappropriate content. Monitored what your kids accessed online.

You were being a good parent. You were protecting your children.

Then the Online Child Safety Act passed. And everything you built to protect your family became illegal.
2/ The law requires age verification on every website.

Not just social media. News sites. Educational forums. Anywhere user-generated content exists.

Your parental controls are no longer compliant. The government-approved system must replace them. For your children's safety.

You are no longer allowed to be the one protecting your kids. The system will do it for you.
3/ Your 12-year-old son needs to verify his identity.

Full legal name. Date of birth. Address. Government ID linked to his face. Permanent digital identity created and stored.

You ask if there is another way. Device-side verification. Parental authorization. Anything that does not require your child to hand over his identity to a database.

There is not. The law requires identity verification. For his protection.
Read 12 tweets
May 4
🧵 THREAD

1/ A new law was passed requiring all cars to have shutoff controls that can override the driver.

The government can now mandate technology in your vehicle that monitors your behavior and shuts down your car if the system decides you are impaired or driving unsafely.

They sold this as protecting drivers. As preventing drunk driving. As making the roads safer.

That is a lie. This is not about protecting drivers. This is about control.
2/ However pissed off you are about this, you are not pissed off enough.

This is not just an inconvenience. This is not just government overreach. This is not just another bad policy you can complain about and move on.

This is the infrastructure for controlling your movement. For deciding where you can go. For shutting down your ability to travel if you do not comply.

And most people have no idea what they just accepted.
3/ Car manufacturers are not against this.

They are not fighting it. They are not lobbying against it. They are not trying to protect your freedom.

They are complicit. They are building the surveillance into the cars. They are working hand in hand with the people pushing this law.

Because they benefit from it.
Read 12 tweets
May 1
🧵 THREAD

1/ Another way we can fight back against digital ID and the coming digital control grid is to reach out to city and state legislators.

Most people today do not understand the US Constitution. Including state legislators.

The US Constitution created a decentralized power structure. The federal government actually has very limited powers. All other powers are granted to the states and to the people themselves.

And state legislators need to understand this.
2/ Not all legislators are bad people.

Most are not psychopaths. Most are not trying to destroy freedom. Most do not wake up in the morning thinking about how to oppress their constituents.

Most legislators genuinely believe they are doing the right thing. And most of them have no idea what they are actually voting for when they approve digital ID bills and online child safety laws.
3/ Most state legislators do not understand that child safety laws are not about protecting children.

They do not understand that age verification requires identity verification. They do not understand that identity verification requires digital IDs. They do not understand that digital IDs are the infrastructure for permanent surveillance.

They think they are voting to protect kids. They have no idea they are voting to build a cage.
Read 12 tweets
Apr 30
🧵 THREAD

1/ One key strategy in the US to fight digital ID and the coming digital control grid is this...

In about 20 states, the people can pass amendments to their state constitution themselves — without the legislature having anything to say about it.

No bill. No vote in the state house. No governor signature.

The people collect signatures. The amendment goes on the ballot. The people vote. And if it passes, it becomes part of the state constitution.

The legislature cannot override it. The governor cannot veto it. It is the supreme law of the state.
2/ This is one of the most powerful tools we have to stop digital IDs.

If the people in one of these states pass a properly worded constitutional amendment banning digital ID, the legislature cannot pass a law requiring them. The governor cannot implement them. No state agency can mandate them.

Because the constitution is higher than any law. Higher than any regulation. Higher than any executive order.

And state law trumps federal law on most things. The people can create a rule that the government cannot override.
3/ Imagine what happens when the first state passes a constitutional amendment protecting privacy and banning digital IDs.

That state becomes a sanctuary of liberty. A bubble of freedom. A place where people can live, work, and transact without surveillance. A place where the digital control grid cannot reach.

And once one state does it, others will follow. Because people will see that it is possible. Because freedom-loving people will move to those states. Because legislators in other states will face pressure to do the same.
Read 10 tweets
Apr 29
🧵 THREAD

1/ We must wake people up about digital IDs, online child safety acts, and the digital control grid being built to enslave us.

Wake up everyone possible. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not when it feels more convenient.

Now.

Most people are not paying attention. Most people do not understand what is being built. Most people will not wake up unless someone they trust shows them what is happening.

That someone is you.
2/ The window to stop this is still open.

But it will not stay open forever. These bills are moving through state legislatures right now. The infrastructure is being deployed right now. The cage is being built right now.

And most people have no idea it is happening.

If we do not wake them up before the system is operational, they will wake up inside the cage. And by then it will be too late.
3/ This is not someone else's responsibility.

This is yours. This is mine. This is every person who understands what is being built and refuses to stay silent while it happens.

You cannot assume someone else will warn them. You cannot assume they will figure it out on their own. You cannot assume the information will reach them unless you bring it to them.

If you see it, you have a responsibility to show it to others.
Read 12 tweets
Apr 28
🧵 THREAD

1/ Online age verification is the hill to die on.

Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else.

This is it. This is the line. This is the infrastructure that enables every other piece of the digital control grid.

If we lose this fight, we lose everything.
2/ Age verification sounds harmless.

It sounds reasonable. It sounds like common sense. Verify kids are old enough before they access certain content.

But age verification requires identity verification. Identity verification requires digital IDs. Digital IDs require everyone — not just children — to prove who they are before they can speak, read, watch, or post anything online.

Age verification is the Trojan horse. And once it is inside the gates, the surveillance state becomes operational.
3/ If you love freedom, you must stop online age verification.

If you love your family, you must stop online age verification.

If you want the best for your children, you must stop online age verification.

This is not optional. This is not someone else's fight. This is yours. And the window to stop it is closing fast.
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