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[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

Epstein’s clients aren’t in jail.

They’re busy creating a social credit system for you.

You know that, right?

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Civil liberties campaigner Silkie Carlo warns that under-16 social media bans will require digital ID checkpoints to access the internet.

"We are sleepwalking towards a total surveillance state."

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

“Adult websites” will soon mean the entire internet

[Modern Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Modern_Scot]

PUBLIC EVIDENCE OF GOVERNMENT COORDINATION ON BANNING UNDER 16 AND DIGITAL ID.
This is not speculation. The public record shows governments, regulators, platforms, digital-ID firms, age-verification companies and data-centre interests moving through the same policy pipeline: international coordination, age-assurance technology, platform compliance, safety-tech markets and AI/data-centre expansion, including in Scotland.

EU, AUSTRALIA AND UK COORDINATION
In November 2025, the European Commission, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner and UK Ofcom agreed to work together on child online safety, age assurance and age-verification systems. This is formal coordination between the EU, Australia and the UK on online child-safety regulation. LINK: https://t.co/goMOYIFFwL

FOLLOW-UP MEETING ON AUSTRALIA’S SOCIAL MEDIA AGE RESTRICTION MODEL
On 3 February 2026, the European Commission, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner and UK Ofcom met again through a cooperation group on age assurance and discussed implementation of Australia’s social media age restrictions. This was a regulator meeting about age assurance and the Australian model. LINK: https://t.co/PM6yZr2Izr

GLOBAL ONLINE SAFETY REGULATORS NETWORK
Ofcom, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner and other online-safety regulators are part of a global regulator network working on online safety, regulatory coherence and age assurance. Active from 2022 onward, this shows regulators working across borders to align online-safety enforcement. LINK: https://t.co/9dCRGT0Tfv

OFCOM SAYS INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION IS PART OF THE PLAN
On 22 January 2026, Ofcom said online harms cross national borders and require a joined-up international approach. The regulator network has published age-assurance principles for regulators. LINK: https://t.co/2Dcaw2LUyi

UK GOVERNMENT SAYS IT WILL USE AUSTRALIA’S MODEL
In June 2026, the UK Government fact sheet said: “We plan to use the same model for a social media ban as Australia.” The UK names platforms including Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook and X. This is direct evidence of policy copying. LINK: https://t.co/0oiwm61aKk

ADULTS MAY ALSO BE AGE-CHECKED
The same UK fact sheet says many adults may avoid new checks if their accounts are old or linked to other age-verified information, but others may face checks including facial recognition. A child social media ban can require adult verification infrastructure. LINK: https://t.co/0oiwm61aKk

EU AGE-VERIFICATION BLUEPRINT
The European Commission built an age-verification blueprint that can be customised by member states and is compatible with future European Digital Identity Wallets. This links age checks with digital identity infrastructure. LINK: https://t.co/rgcUhYbEDS

EU AGE-VERIFICATION CONTRACTORS
The European Commission says the age-verification blueprint is being developed by the T-Scy consortium, made up of Scytales AB and T-Systems International GmbH. T-Systems is part of Deutsche Telekom. The contract was awarded in early 2025. LINK: https://t.co/pyWJfJvVLR

AUSTRALIAN AGE ASSURANCE TECHNOLOGY TRIAL
Australia commissioned an Age Assurance Technology Trial to assess age verification, age estimation, age inference, parental controls and related technologies. The final report was published on 31 August 2025. This created a public technical evidence base for age-gating systems. LINK: https://t.co/E4PLhOsaX7

AUSTRALIA TESTED 48 VENDORS AND MORE THAN 60 TECHNOLOGIES
The Australian trial assessed 48 vendors and more than 60 technologies across social media, gaming, adult content and online retail. This shows commercial technology suppliers are already inside the implementation ecosystem. LINK: https://t.co/rtEXiNpefz

AUSTRALIAN TRIAL DELIVERY COMPANIES
The publicly listed delivery organisations include AVID Certification Services Ltd / Age Check Certification Scheme, KJR, Holding Redlich, Koliya Group, Heartburst, Solicab, SafetyTech and Illuminate Tech. These names show the delivery layer behind the Australian testing programme. LINK: https://t.co/WwMzY9dWw6

VENDORS NAMED IN THE AUSTRALIAN TRIAL ECOSYSTEM
Publicly named examples include Yoti, AgeChecked, APP ConnectID / Australian Payments Plus, Apple, Austroads, DigiChek, EarthID, Epic Games Kids Web Services, Equifax, FrankieOne, GBG, Google, IDVerse / OCR Labs, iProov, K-ID, Meta, Persona, PRIVO, Qoria, Snap, TrustElevate, Verifymy and Yubo. They were not all writing the law, but they are part of the technology and platform ecosystem being assessed, regulated or prepared for enforcement. LINK: https://t.co/H6YsaySzFK

UK GOVERNMENT MET YOTI ON DIGITAL ID AND AGE ASSURANCE
UK ministerial transparency records show Peter Kyle, then UK Technology Secretary, had a “Yoti visit” on 24 April 2025 “to discuss use of digital ID tools for age assurance in line with the online safety act provisions.” This directly connects UK Government with a digital-ID and age-assurance company. LINK: https://t.co/KDObGvpXu6

UK GOVERNMENT ALSO MET MAJOR PLATFORMS ON ONLINE SAFETY
The same UK ministerial records show meetings with Snapchat, TikTok, Meta, YouTube, Amazon and TechUK on Online Safety Act implementation, child safety, online safety, data retention, digital identity and investment. This shows major platforms and tech bodies engaging government while online safety and age-assurance policy was moving. LINK: https://t.co/KDObGvpXu6

OFCOM HELD MEETINGS WITH YOTI AND OTHER AGE-ASSURANCE PROVIDERS
An Ofcom FOI response says Yoti is one of a variety of age-assurance and safety-technology providers with which Ofcom has held meetings. Ofcom said the meetings were not advisory, but were to understand available technologies. This directly connects the UK regulator with age-assurance technology suppliers. LINK: https://t.co/d66cAy0FuA

UK SAFETY-TECH IS POSITIONED AS AN EXPORT INDUSTRY
A UK Government safety-tech report says the age-verification sub-sector includes firms such as Yoti, AgeChecked and VeriMe. It says the sector is developing interoperability and that the British model is being studied by Australia, Poland, New Zealand, France, Ireland and Germany. This is not only child safety. It is also an industry strategy. LINK: https://t.co/zfYYleUZl7

UK GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY NAMES THE AGE-VERIFICATION SECTOR
The UK Safety Tech Providers directory says age verification commonly relies on official data such as passports or credit cards, while age estimation often relies on AI. It also says the age-verification sub-sector has organised itself as a coherent global industry. The technology behind “prove your age” is a commercial sector. LINK: https://t.co/PrrvH88jU3

YOTI AND META
UK Government’s 2025 safety-tech analysis cites Yoti’s partnership with Meta for age verification. This connects a major platform with a named age-assurance provider. LINK: https://t.co/bgJ4YJ0uvd

OFCOM SAYS AGE-CHECK TRAFFIC SURGED AFTER UK RULES BEGAN
Ofcom reported that in the first month after new age-check rules came into force, visits to the top five third-party age-assurance providers reached 7.5 million UK visits, up from under one million in June. Enforcement creates traffic and demand for age-assurance providers. LINK: https://t.co/VFVdqM71zt

WHO BENEFITS
Governments gain an enforcement layer over access to online spaces. Regulators gain measurable compliance systems. Age-verification and digital-ID companies gain a growing compliance market. Platforms may benefit if international rules become standardised rather than fragmented, although they also face compliance costs and regulatory pressure. Data-centre, AI cloud and compute companies benefit from the wider government push to build AI infrastructure, digital identity, safety tech and online compliance systems.

UK AI GROWTH ZONES AND DATA-CENTRE SUPPORT
The UK Government says data centres in AI Growth Zones may receive electricity cost reductions from April 2027, subject to legislation. The proposed reduction is up to £24/MWh in Scotland. This is a direct public-policy benefit for qualifying data-centre projects in Scotland. LINK: https://t.co/OWzsArak3H

SCOTLAND: NORTH LANARKSHIRE AI GROWTH ZONE
The UK Government announced Lanarkshire as an AI Growth Zone, delivered by DataVita around its Airdrie data-centre site in partnership with CoreWeave. The announcement says £8.2bn in private investment is committed and refers to a community fund of up to £543m. Scotland is being positioned as part of this infrastructure story. LINK: https://t.co/f4yBheXOIe

COREWEAVE, NVIDIA AND DATAVITA IN SCOTLAND
CoreWeave says it is partnering with NVIDIA and DataVita in Scotland as part of a £1.5bn UK AI data-centre expansion, deploying NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs backed by renewable energy. This is a named AI infrastructure investment involving Scotland. LINK: https://t.co/8fcCV21lk1

OTHER UK DATA-CENTRE INVESTMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Microsoft announced a $30bn UK AI and infrastructure investment from 2025 to 2028. LINK: https://t.co/wnnFHOtHYG

Google announced a two-year £5bn UK investment and opened its Waltham Cross data centre in Hertfordshire. LINK: https://t.co/Pbz61WWwZz

Amazon announced a £40bn UK investment, with data-centre investment expected to contribute £14bn to the UK economy over five years. LINK: https://t.co/Yz4C93fY4C

IMPORTANT DISTINCTION
The UK-wide data-centre and AI investment announcements name Microsoft, Google and Amazon. The Scotland-specific public records found so far more clearly name DataVita, CoreWeave, NVIDIA, ILI Group, Pulsant, iomart and Brightsolid. The public record found so far does not show Google, Meta, Microsoft or Amazon as Scottish data-centre operators in the same direct way.

THIS IS EVIDENCE
The public record does not prove one secret controller. It does prove that governments are coordinating on online age assurance, regulators are aligning enforcement, digital-ID and age-verification companies are building and testing the tools, major platforms are meeting government and preparing compliance systems, and AI/data-centre infrastructure is being promoted at the same time, including in Scotland. The issue is not whether children should be protected. The issue is whether child protection is being used to build a permanent identity gate for the internet.

[Yaël Ossowski⚜️ @YaelOss]

Here we go again: KOSA and a host of rushed internet regulations to force identity- verification rather than letting parents and innovators find the solutions that work for them

[karma @karma44921039]

The sooner the people realise that it’s all planned in advance.

It’s all one big circus,don’t fall for it .

Nothing is a coincidence

[bONGO🪻 @wariocolosseum]

least obvious biometric data collector

[Tim Hinchliffe @TimHinchliffe]

G7 leaders call for internet passports via ‘age assurance’ for everyone:
‘Age assurance’ is a backdoor for digital ID, internet passports & biometric surveillance to end online anonymity for all users https://t.co/mgeheZWxl2

[Michael Bento @MichaelPBento]

Which means that the only way Japan will have left to stabilize their currency will be to make a series of large emergency rate hikes.

[Don Johnson @DonMiami3]

The Yen interventions don’t even work

It’s so hilarious

[JPY Only @MehtaDivya37757]

Don’t be early! Watch the weekly move before deciding anything. It is not a short yet.

[Miad @ZFXtrading]

You could not write it
EURUSD has followed Trump's first term price action to the T.

[Fringe Truth @TruthFringe]

Canada, you've been warned! 🇨🇦

https://t.co/hgjUuTbnxi

[Tim Sharp 🍊 🍊 🇺🇸 @realtimsharp]

Why is anyone complying with Flock when it clearly violates the 4th Amendment?

[Together @Togetherdec]

A “social media ban for children” will likely mean ID checks for all of us before we can speak online

Join the campaign to push back - get action alerts:
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[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

🚨This tyranny likely headed to TEXAS soon thanks to liberal bills like SB2420, which takes Texas closer to DIGITAL IDs and dystopian social credit scores!

NO!

Tell your State Rep/Senator you want SB2420 REPEALED!! (Yes, they probably voted for it.)

NO DIGITAL IDs IN TEXAS!!!

[vp.net @vpnet_official]

Canada limited debate, kept a committee sitting past midnight, and pushed Bill C-22 through third reading before dozens of amendments were even worked through. One member called it "rammed through without debate." Here is what the Lawful Access Act actually does.
More below.

[Reevie @reevierat]

$1k for a console without a controller

[No to Digital ID @NoToDigitalID]

Age verification is Digital ID by the backdoor.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Congress is scrambling right now to pass online identity checks to use the internet—just like we’re seeing in places like the UK—before anyone realizes what they’re doing.

They’re using “protecting kids” as their excuse, but it’s really about spying on and controlling Americans!