Who'sThisNow

[Aaron Gunn @AaronGunn]

It should alarm every Canadian that the primary use the Liberals have made of their new, backroom, bribe-bought majority has been to ram through legislation that censors the internet, spies on citizens, and lays the groundwork for a virtual surveillance state.

[Nita Kang @NitaKang]

Wake up Canada.

Starmer, Macron, and Carney are simultaneously coming for our right to free speech.

It's not a coincidence.

It's not about the kids.

[Jacob Mantle @jacobmantle]

🚨 BREAKING🚨

The Liberals are trying to ram C-22 through the House of Commons before summer. This would mean zero, absolutely zero amendments, zero further debate, to the largest expansion of government surveillance in history. This is not democracy, this is tyranny.

@googlecanada @Apple @Meta @tobi @mgeist @privacylawyer @windscribecom @NordVPN @DuckDuckGo @MWACCanada @bccla @JoshDehaas @ProtonVPN @expressvpn @CDNConstFound @ggreenwald @PrivacyPrivee

[Roman Baber @Roman_Baber]

Breaking 🚨
Liberals are shutting down debate, to ram Bill C-22 through House by Friday!

This is despite C-22 violating our Charter Rights against Arbitrary Seizure!

Please see my short exchange with Attorney General @SeanFraserMP. ⬇️

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

EVERYONE IN NYC IS SINGING EMPIRE STATE OF MIND

[yoxic @yoxics]

IShowSpeed didn't realize he was sitting next to Zohran Mamdani the Mayor of New York City the entire time while at the World Cup game 😭

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

Spurs led game 1 by 14 points

Spurs led game 2 by 12 points

Spurs led game 3 by 12 points

Spurs led game 4 by 29 points

Spurs led game 5 by 16 points

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congrats to Coach Brown, Finals MVP Jalen Brunson, OG, and the rest of these incredible NBA Champion @NYKnicks! What a run!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

[Alien: Isolation 2 @AlienIsolation]

Not alone.

#AlienIsolation2

[Shaun @shaunlabrie]

No one crying about the gender swap in this game 😈

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully controlled internet.

The age verification rush must be slowed down, and politicians need to recognize the consequences of different types of legislation and systems.

Age verification is the wrong approach to fix “the social media problem”
The big tech social media companies are bad. Their business model is bad; it is based on mass surveillance and manipulation, and they cooperate with governments in mapping entire populations. But age verification is fundamentally the wrong approach to preventing children from using big tech social media platforms. Introducing age verification is based on coercion; the state forces social media companies to verify their users’ identities. But the big tech social media platforms already know which of their users are children. Their business model depends on knowing this. They know how old users are, and they know exactly what type of person they are. As age verification is based on coercion, politicians could instead force platforms to stop doing the things politicians consider harmful to children, or force them to block children (again, they know who they are) from using their services. But instead, politicians seek to massively invade everyone’s privacy and undermine democratic rights on a global scale. In other words, the latter is the real objective – they do not want to protect children; they want to impose control.

Slippery slope of age verification
It is undeniable that age verification threatens freedom of expression, risks increasing mass surveillance, and is likely to lead to censorship. It will not only shrink the online world and reduce young people’s right to privacy (for example, if VPN services were to be restricted); but also risks becoming a significant step toward a controlled internet for everyone.

Most age verification is identity verification
Most countries are now considering introducing age verification systems, meaning that everyone would have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service or website. This is not age verification but identity verification, and the consequence is therefore that freedom of information is restricted (you can no longer visit regulated websites anonymously) and that you can no longer post anonymously on social media. This is a major problem in countries like the UK and Germany where the police conduct raids on people’s homes for posting content on social media that the authorities dislike. Or in the United States, where authorities are trying to pressure tech companies into revealing the identities behind accounts protesting ICE. Social media identity verification removes important tools for activists in countries where criticizing those in power is dangerous.

Restrictions on app store or operating system level
Some countries are looking to impose identity verification at the app store level or even within the operating system itself. This is an exciting experiment, since this is possible to circumvent using open-source operating systems. Some countries are already looking to include open-source systems. Since open-source systems cannot be controlled, politicians would ultimately need to ban devices that are not controlled by the state. The end point: telescreens like those in Orwell’s 1984, devices that both monitor you and broadcast only the information approved by the state.

The Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) alternative and the EU
The EU has presented its own age verification app as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is currently designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time.

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[Cinematografia @Cinematografiaz]

O diretor de ‘OBSESSION’, Curry Barker, quer fazer uma série limitada sobre a One Wish Willow.

“Cada episódio é um desejo diferente que sai completamente dos trilhos. Talvez eu dirija o episódio piloto com o mesmo diretor de fotografia, e então você poderia convidar outros cineastas para dar o seu próprio toque nisso.”

(Fonte:@totalfilm)

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

He did this without cutting any social services, btw.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.

Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.

We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.

We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.

Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.

That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

[XBOX @XBOX]

Reminder: just because you're not personally into a game, doesn't mean it's a bad game

[Who'sThisNow @Shawarma2034]

@enteio What are my options?

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

The government shouldn’t have the ability to control your car in anyway shape or form

[Assassin's Creed @assassinscreed]

Experience smooth and improved iconic parkour moves... from free jumps, to back ejects, and side ejects! 🧗🏴‍☠️

#AssassinsCreed