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[Man and Superman 🥊🥋🏀 @MainEventTV_AKA]

AND THERE IT IS, PEOPLE!

How many moves does it take for you to see the plan?

[Truth Tsar @truthtsar]

No Flock cameras.

No ID for access to the internet.

No driver monitoring systems in cars.

No NSA.

The government has gotten too comfortable with destroying our freedom.

No surveillance.

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The reason "Everything is a Subscription" is because the elites realized that if you "own" things, you are dangerous. If you own your house, your car, and your tools, you can say "No." If you rent your life, you have to say "Yes" to everything.

[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

"Terrorist" is now a term meaning anyone who doesn't meekly bow down to authoritarian overreach.

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

Nothing says FREEDOM more than a massive biometric surveillance system being installed without anyone's consent.

[Gris 🇩🇰 @Graesplaene_]

Democracy is when a mass surveillance law gets rejected multiple times so you force it through with an emergency vote right before summer recess

[mert @mert]

mass surveillance is coming

> first 5 votes fail
> have another vote
> invoke technicality to require majority to vote AGAINST rather than requiring majority to vote FOR
> do it when everyone's on vacation so not enough numbers to vote against

demonic creatures

[EromancerSFW @EromancerSFW]

Interesting how every authoritarian measure is instantly rebranded as child protection.

[Stop Killing Games Official @StopKilingGames]

First it was chat control, then they wanted age verification, now it’s device scanning. Next up is telling you what you are supposed to watch.

NOOOO, the stuff everyone warned about totally isn’t the stuff that is happening.

[dj franzia @hawillisdc]

mass surveillance. you can be id'd via electronic payments, phone, bluetooth signal from ur devices, fl*ck cams, wifi, ai ids your face + gait, license plate readers etc. high powered data centers can process it all in one work flow to know where everyone is all the time :)

[ϟyphistine @syphistine]

You're such a little rat.

[ArceusBowser @ArceusBowser212]

The KIDS Act violates our 1st and 4th Amendment rights, censors the internet for the party in charge to eliminate speech they don't like, and allows them to trace the speech directly back to people instead of being anonymous, because you'd have to scan your ID to gain access.

[mothman47 @mothman_47]

The internet might be over.

I am not talking about the corporate, ad-filled internet. I mean the real one. The one you use to talk with your friends, find niche communities, and freely share ideas. The way you access and interact with the digital world is about to change forever if we don't speak up right now.

The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the KIDS Act. Do not let the well-intentioned name fool you. This massive legislative package is a wolf in sheep’s clothing that could potentially cause an unfathomable amount of damage to the privacy, security, and free speech of every single citizen in the United States.

Major civil liberties and digital rights organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) are sounding the alarm. This bill is a massive over-reach of legislation designed to curtail your freedoms, everyones.

Under this bill, websites and apps will be pressured to verify the age of all users to avoid massive legal liability. This creates a de facto age-verification mandate, meaning you could soon be forced to upload government IDs, passports, or hand over biometric facial scans just to use standard apps or browse everyday websites. Forcing every corner of the web to collect and store these massive databases of citizen identity documents is an absolute cybersecurity nightmare waiting to happen, creating a golden target for hackers and data leaks.

The bill also takes direct aim at standard privacy features like disappearing or ephemeral messaging, treating basic digital privacy tools like dangerous design tricks rather than the digital equivalent of a private, real-world conversation. By weaponizing broad, vague definitions of "harmful content," the package pressures tech platforms to heavily over-censor completely lawful speech out of fear of massive government lawsuits. It risks sanitizing the internet and shutting down vital spaces for free expression and open communication.

This won't stop at signing up for websites, or chat apps. It will extend to artwork websites, multimedia hubs like Newgrounds, Music sites, even Reddit and 4chan will be subjected to this, and while you might think it's well deserved, you won't be saying that when they start asking users to verify their age on Mangadex or doujinshi sites, or on Itch io. Going to websites outside the US would be scrutinized if it doesn't follow the same criteria.

VPNs? Forget it, they'll try to outlaw those, too.

We all want children to be safe, but turning the entire internet into an Orwellian surveillance state where you have to show papers just to log on is a terrifying overreach. The bill has passed the House, which means the battleground is officially moving to the Senate. We cannot afford to sit this one out. This is a slippery slope and we must not give them this power over all of us.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

This is a Trojan horse that will eliminate privacy on the internet.

Why not make devices just for kids if you want to protect them? Why KYC every single person on the internet?

Because this is about control, not children.

[Quinn Nelson @SnazzyLabs]

Well, you can't afford a new computer because the AI industry is using all of the world's RAM, but at least you can't use the AI either because Big Brother says no.

You will own nothing and be happy.

[ArceusBowser @ArceusBowser212]

BTW if this passes the internet is as good as dead, your privacy will disappear and anything you say on it will be used against you despite free speech

[DBL MP / Double @dbl_mp1]

Yes, forcing users to upload an ID in order to speak online is a violation of the First Amendment.

No, it’s not to “protect kids” like some keep trying to claim.

[MEGA @MEGAprivacy]

To access a website, you now need to open your camera and wave 👋

Yes, Google is testing a new reCAPTCHA that asks you to make hand gestures at your camera instead of clicking traffic lights.

Your browser requests camera access, records a short video of your hand movement, and sends it to Google to verify you're human.

Of course, Google says they don't retain any data. But this is also the company whose entire business model runs on knowing everything about you, so. 🤷

And don't worry, the normal reCAPTCHA methods are still there, for now...

[bONGO 🌐 @wariocolosseum]

i feel like not enough ppl are worried abt the social media ban thats been happening in countries lately like thats straight up just censorship laws being put in place

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

If your country is even considering banning VPNs, then you aren't living in a free country anymore.