First porn, now YouTube, ID checks to access the internet are creeping in. China & Russia started this way. Now their internet is locked down: no anonymity, no dissent, total surveillance. We are sleepwalking into total fascism. Don’t buy the “protect the kids” excuse. They want total control.
What happened to the parental responsibility crowd?
Too busy looking at nudie content in work meetings, maybe?
I’d so rather be locked down with mass surveillance in China than the US.
Meanwhile people have to GoFundMe for children with cancer. It’s not about kids.
And when the fascists take over all the tools will be in place
If parents wanted their children protected, they'd do it themselves.
Big tell is that the Founder CEO of Plantir the surveillance company, hides in seclusion, and doesn’t even have a cell phone.
And? Who is going to stop it? The tech oligarchs are all on board. Maybe if everyone deleted thier socials? Or canceled wireless in protest? Or a national strike? But literally nobody wants to sacrifice anything. So it’s happening. And nothing is going to stop it.
I can survive fine without streaming services, not so sure they can survive the reverse.
Taoists have a saying like "How can you contain the uncontainable". People will just use their own dns, tor, other proxies or ssh tunnels out of the country. To quote Lewis Black on immigration, "How do you stop 11 million people?!?! Its easy, you don't!" It will only stop those who don't fight back
I saw a seal from Sumerian (some 3500 BCE) depicting a man and woman having sex recently. Porn’s been around that long yet some think it can be eliminated. Let’s tilt at another windmill in addition to drugs, shall we?
You know what, though? After finding out that Lil Tay opened an OF the day she turned 18 and made $3m dollars. I can not watch porn if it means that this gross countdown til legal age thing in the culture dies.
V….P….N.
Im just glad for every day we still have internet and cell service.
Funny, they never acted to "protect the kids" in the past. You almost think that the new rules are for something else....
Ok, well, never look into the Department of Homeland Security.
We are all going to have to go dark in a couple years aren’t we? 😞
All I'ma say is suddenly it's going to make a lot of sense to use a VPN and spoof as if you're in Europe
Just be sure to shop around. Just a handful of corporations own hundreds of VPNs each.
Wait, which of these companies is strictly not going to help fascists? Is there a breakdown of that? May we have an 'anti-fascism guarantee' rating on all companies, please?
Following this cause I’m gonna need to shop around soon I feel.
I’ve been looking for a safe and useful VPN for a while. As a non-techie, it’s hard to know where to find good information.
Don't get the free ones, they fuck you up in other ways. Try Proton
Mullvad is the ONLY VPN I trust and recommend, and to a lesser extent Proton. Proton is built upon the Mullvad platform so basically same with another company involved. I use protonmail and have since my google exodus. My first vpn was expressVPN and i found out they are owned by a unit 8200 alum 😖
Thank you, good to know 👍
You’re welcome ☺️
That won’t work for long. And basically it’s just another way to milk more money out of everyone.
Doomerism gets us nowhere.
Neither will pretending we can one weird trick our way out of fascism. A convenient weekend march here and there and “surely this” on social media isn’t stopping anything. We needs to end this illusion of normalcy and act like we are at war and make sacrifices. Or roll over and take it.
And I just want to toss this in too: While the protests in and of themselves will not be enough, don't look down on them. They are networking points. These are people willing to do something, and do what we can to connect to folks. Do not let perfection be the enemy of action.
Ideally I’d agree. Practically no. Marches make people feel good. Thats it. But they achieve next to nothing. If what you say was true we’d be three months into national strikes. But no one has organized shit. I’m no longer going to fool myself with comforting lies. Nobody is saving us.
You want a general strike? Cool. Show up to protests. Push that as an action. Map people out who would be down to help build that. Use these networks to build what you want. We literally *need* everything anyone can bring.
I’m 62. I’ve shown up to every March since 1989, my guy. And other than a brief moment where the WTO99 marches shamed a handful of corporations, they have achieved next to nothing. And people have been circulating national strike attempts since January. And NOBODY is interested.
It's not that people aren't interested. They are. We just don't have the capacity. We need to be 2 decades ahead in our organizing capacity, but we have to deal with the hand we've got. We lose until we win. That's how it always has been for our sorts. But giving up only serves the fascists.
Capacity? We have plenty of capacity. We are the wealthiest population on earth. We have no will. Nobody wants to sacrifice anything. Until people are willing to lose their jobs and homes (which will be taken from under a fascist dictatorship anyway) then they won’t do what is necessary.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to organize a general strike? You're talking about marching in the streets vs the organized version of a nuke. We weren't anywhere near having that capacity in 2024. You are correct that no one is coming to save us, so we gotta do everything we can
The Solidarity movement organized national strikes in less than two weeks.
Like I want to hit that stage too, but I'm not going to be upset that we're not there yet. All I can do is simply struggle forward to get us there. The communist party of every country was invested in organizing labor. The capitalist parties have been invested in destroying any organizing attempts
And a part of that is taking advantage of every opportunity I can to build consciousness and organizing capacity, even if I'm not always good at it.
I wonder if there might be material differences between where we are at and 1980s Poland
For one it’s easier to organize now because of internet technology than it ever was in Poland in the 80’s under a well entrenched police state. The only reason we now aren’t taking these actions is Americans in 2025 are weak, entitled, and have no idea what they lost in November 2024.
Sure, but we also need stop gaps. People using VPNs so they can do some degree of info sec to coordinate and collaborate is crucial too. Will it hold, is it enough on it's own? Absolutely not. But the worst thing ANYONE can do is comply in advance.
Be honest. The vast majority of VPN’s are not used by plucky rebels. You want to stop ID laws? Get at least 50 million people to suspend their socials and internet providers. And stay home from work for a week. But NOBODY is going to do that. Shit gets worse because no one can sacrifice.
I use a VPN to access UK TV from Spain. It works really well 😎
I saw a post today about this. I need to find it and review the details again. Basically it was saying that if some apps are running in the background, things done on vpn or in incognito browser mode were still sent to Meta for data collection. We all will need to get educated on options for privacy
I wouldn’t trust a 3rd-party VPN provider anymore than I would my ISP.
But Biden was old…
And it seems to me that these actions are gonna cost big tech, Internet provider,phone company,etc a whole lot of losses, especially in stock !!
The party of pedophiles have never cared about protecting children.
Hard agree. We pay for YouTube, but if they want me to upload a photo ID, we'll be canceling. And this one will hurt a lot more than shutting off Prime and Max did, but I'm not providing the photo they need to match me with all the data stolen through DOGE.
Cancel everything & let businesses go tits up
I'm not saying me canceling YouTube will destroy anything. I'm saying I'd rather cancel the only streaming service I use than comply with fascism.
Just doing it is a good step that I hope many others take too.
he's loaded
You think they don't already know who you are? Where you go? What you watch, who you speak to? Here's the killer, they don't give a fuck. You're nobody.
I give a fuck, and that's all that matters.
Not really, because you're powerless and insignificant to them. A by product of intellegence gathering procedures, the noise in the data.
You don't mean shit to me, but here you are, being a know it all, pedantic, denigrating asshole. Twice! Fuck off now. #dick
I never claimed to be a know it all. Yet you appear to be in denial of fucking obvious. I bet Jesus loves your special arse 🤣
just an excuse to link our identification to what we watch
It was never about "protecting kids". Any ideology that uses children as a cudgel to advance their authoritarianism is invalid.
Roblox is being sued because a child was kidnapped and trafficked by a man the child met on their Discord servers. Anything that will protect the companies from lawsuits will be done.
Any service that needs to verify my age is a service I don't feel the need to use.
I'd say we are galloping, screaming, crying and full of rage into authoritarianism.
After decades of raging about nanny state, conservatives finally get complete power and they try to install a nanny state. See, it was never about the nanny state itself, but rather who the nanny is. The nanny must be white & enforce white supremacy.
Definitely not to protect the kids. Use YouTube signed out - PLENTY of not kid appropriate content.
Hitler knew that to truly control a nation it wasn’t enough to dictate their work, their role, he had to also control their free time. This, makes that easier. “Strength Through Joy” was the official name of Hitler’s program. This is restricting certain activities, achieving the same result.
Anonymous speech is ‘bot’ speech. It counts for nothing, a bit like letting people vote as many times as they like.
And even countries trying to split from America are doing it too. Canada? UK? EU nations? Australia? Sigh...
"trumpy dumpy NAZI REGIME" is VERY REAL !!!
You are already there. You sleepwalked (Past tense) into Fascism. Fuck your nation is already a full blown Nazi Nation. Sooooooooooo, yeah, this is a bell already rung bub🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
You mean we slept walk into it. There's not really a way back that doesn't involve revolution.
Almost everyone in China has a vpn. The government knows and alloows it, so not locked down at all. Likewise Russia. In China they use vpns to get reliable information. In Russia, they use vpns to protect themselves when they critticize Putin and call him names.
your statement is 100% false, the Chinese government is aware that some people use VPNs, but it does not openly allow it. Russia allows VPNs but passed laws requiring VPN providers to comply with the state’s blacklist of banned websites or face blocking.
President Xi, you may fire when ready
If we step back and look at a big picture we can see that a large number of Americans are just plain dumb. They believed a conman and voted for a bright future. He told them that groceries is a beautiful word. A man who’s never been to a grocery store. Hilarious.
Willful ignorance. They all walk around with a super computer in their pockets. They are choosing stupidity.
Protect the kids? Scump likes to fuck them! GMAFB!
Keep it up everyday. Tell people. Make flyers and quietly leave them in the waiting areas of transit stops, offices, hospitals, and airports. Be the Resistance that will take him DOWN. Once he falls, the whole tower falls.
Ugh. They can eat my shorts
They don't give an eff about ANY of our kids
ALL gay related content, no matter how harmless, will be declared adult content. And should you ID to get in, expect to be persecuted.
It's a tragedy. You cant just Click Porn and Jerk off instantly any more Literally Hitler or something something
But Americans are posting clever memes?
Stop pretending authoritarianism and fascism are not in full form already. The regime ignores our constitutional rights daily.
They will be trying to ban VPN services next.
trump was probably getting lessons from putin
Age checks for porn etc. are fine by me!
Thats great. The sooner we stop using this shite, the sooner we start revolutions again :D *jk but social media is a pain in the ...
The kids have got it covered with VPNs anyway
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When I began skinning my squirrel to the pink salt commercials I began taking back what these monsters have stolen from me. #IWillNotConform
😁 Lots of crazy pink salt commercials with AI Oprah.
Isn’t it insane? Never thought I’d see such weird things. 🤔
"data is the new oil" I've got zero faith my facial images will remain private and breach free while also not being used to train AI or monitor my habits
You're past the "into" part. You're knee deep in fascism and sinking fast.
Just a reminder kids. People survived all manner of things before the internet. Learn some skills that involve no electricity. Instead of panicking that the revolution will not be broadcast, invest in a staple gun, five reams of paper, and a case of markers.
You are so right, Jason. It’s remarkable how many people just aren’t getting it.
Of course. Maybe the incells who voted for him will have regret.
Soon US citizens will be rated like China does. tinyurl.com/2uyhfhce
There is no doubt that humans will be rated and AI will do nothing but accelerate that process.
that story is from 2019
"that story is from 2019" Summer 2025 not such social credit has been implemented, and and no nationwide individual scoring system has been implemented in China. Thank you for paying attention to this !
So they want to ban porn, but pedophiles are allowed to roam free
Kids don't even use the Internet
When is this horror going to end?
Don’t forget FB already requiring ID checks at every possible excuse they can find
don’t watch porn. it’s how they blackmail everyone.
I'm going to become such a feral little klepto once these age verifications go into affect its not even funny. Oh I need my ID to listen tousic on Spotify? Guess I'll just steal it then.
I’m in free trial stage of using a new music streaming app Deezer
Damn, shouldn't have thrown out the bunch of blank CDs I found the other day.
We are in fascism. We aren't sleepwalking into anything. It's here.
if MAGA wanted to protect children the best thing they could do would be to collectively jump off a high building.
Censorship does not protect children in any way. It only protects predators by punishing those who call said predators out.
It scares me that so many are just ignoring what is happening around them. They choose to believe the illusion that nothing is wrong. It's sad.
It scares me too
It's because it's damn near impossible to function knowing everything that is happening.
Then stop trying to look at it all. Take an issue focus on it. You're involved law if you're bio is correct. Look at 1 issue. Dissect it. Voting rights are the most basic thing you can look to. Find like-minded people. If you're liberal look up the Dem party or Indie party in your state. Get active.
I can speak from experience, being "woke" is exhausting but yeah I just don't understand how so many people can be sleepwalking through life
If they call us “woke”, can we call them “unconscious” ? (Or sleepwalkers)
Long time ago we called it the "ostrich effect". People burying their heads in the sand hoping the problems will go away. We are no longer living in a democracy,we are living in totalitarianism. It's like people think they're going to have their life under those conditions, they aren't.
Excellent point. So much evil has been done by wrapping the actual goals in the cloak of "protect the children."
The regime have no intentions of protecting kids
Is looking at minge a right wing thing then?
"Don’t stay indifferent. It WILL concern you eventually. It will concern your family, your friends. Voice your objection IMMEDIATELY. Show them you care. RESIST." From: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
It’s why all the GOP men store their kiddie porn on their hard drives maybe?
Republikkklans are the LAST people to trust with protecting children. Ffs
Funny how the pervasive right wing thought is to think parents know best about their children’s education, but it’s OK for the government and it’s entities to monitor your child’s activities online because parents obviously are not qualified to do this
According to Rachel we’re there now. I believe her.
They don't want anyone to be anonymous. You're right, this is a walk into fascism.
We're not sleeping walking. It's being advertised as a new "feature", and the American drones/consumers/ imbeciles, are lapping it up like the obedient slaves to late stage capitalism that a fascist dictatorship requires.
maga is the party of rapists, pervs, sex traffickers, pedophiles etc. It’s 100% not about protecting children. bsky.app/profile/cmag...
This is why I've spent the last few decades downloading rather than streaming
I still buy my music on iTunes like it's 2006. And download it. To my computer. Which is in my house.
I'm sorry but the internet is what greatly assisted in all the hate going on in this country. It is also responsible for election fraud. The internet should not be used for government business, PERIOD. It should be used for what it was intended, communication between family and friends.
lol no.
That's not what it was intended for. Also, no.
Absolutely ICE & FBI will have this information in a heartbeat to add into their Palantir profiles to blackmail anyone they want. Also, none of these companies can be trusted to protect this information appropriately and not have it exposed in data breaches.
Hysterical tosh. Techbroligarchs already own your ID, personality profile & political intentions & you never uttered a peep. Now harder porn access = 'fascism'? SMH Big Brother ain't democratically elected governments - it's same fascist techcorps that sucked up your data to feed you shite.
What she said. 👆🏽
Controlling access is control.
👹North Korea as well FFS!
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There's NO GUARANTEE there will EVER be any more Elections DJT and Co know it's All or Nothing If maga fails to break the US Constitution, and our Republic, DJT and Co know that Reckoning comes. Increased Fed Officer Misconduct, Troop Deployments, and Election Sabotage are on the way Time to Prepare
Funny how “protect the kids” never applies to school shootings.
"They" want your data.
Hello 👋👋👋
You’re right!! This is a fulcrum move.
And they want it TO HURT KIDS!!!
What are you referencing? I know the porn id thing...what about YouTube?
gamerant.com/youtube-new-...
Ugh. ENSHITTIFICATION
I had to look it up for myself. I’m not in an affected country (yet), but……. Ugh
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"Protect the kids" is rich when this administration won't reveal the sexual predators who payed to have young girls trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
I fear the total silencing of artistic expression is next if we keep allowing this to continue.
We're already there ...
Sleepwalking was last year.
Worst part is the AI aspect of it. There has been questionable porn sites for some time that have required proof of identification in the form of a credit/debit card these were sites made to get and sale your bank information. What they are implementing with AI's help will make things much worse.
Alot of people are saying xhamster removed their age verification!
People keep saying that “we are sleepwalking into racism.” We are ALREADY THERE.
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Don't give the GOP members of Congress a minute of peace. You have a right to call anyone in Congress. Here's the senator phone list. There are 53 Republican Senators Call every day. Ok to call off hours and blow up their VM. 202.224.#### Be vocal. Be visible. Be disruptive. Make the calls
We give it to them by being addicted to our devices
Protect what kids they protecting the rapists if there were thousands of girls, how many pedophiles you think there are none have been arrested only Prince Andrew has been outed
“Click box to prove you’re human” “Do captcha to prove you’re human” “Now sign in to prove you’re human”
ChatGPT have been able to prove its human now.. That is no longer a safe way to keep Bots out.
I haven’t been able to use YouTube for months because I am not getting a fucking google account
use it signed out. Safer identity wise in general. Sitting through a couple of commercials is worth the safety. I’ve been using it signed out for years.
It won’t let me After all the prove I’m human it still gives me this
Strange. I’m able to use it signed out on two iPhones, my computer, and two Amazon fire sticks. “Graphic” content is unviewable, but that’s more gore & sex. Plenty of eff-bombs & proper shits come through signed out. Hope that you find a way!
I was able to do it with the app for about a day, it asked if I wanted to continue while signed out, and then it quit asking me.🤷♂️ I may just have to use my old phone or pad
If it is legal, it’s legal. If it’s not, shut it down.
if they cared about the children then they wouldn’t have block the Epstines files from being released. it was never about protecting the children. it’s about control.
Don't agree with this take at all. Don't understand why the Internet should have different rules to the physical world. If you have opinions, show your face, and say them. Fed up listening to Russian bots polluting public discourse and influencing impressionable minds with weird 'patriot' nonsense
Not today FBI!
Idt you really know anything about the Chinese internet or the laws therein. There're no national ID requirements to access/utilize the internet. Prerequisites for delivery, taxi, or financial services may require ID—however, this is quite normal universally. No need to needlessly vilify China.
ID checks are the Trojan horse into the government knowing your business.
it's a boon for vpn providers. as always FOLLOW THE MONEY ...... from who is funding , who is going to benefit , which representatives are screaming the loudest.
vpn providers, and identification verification companies
Are you opposed to “protecting the kids”?
Welp. There goes YouTube for me. The minute they ask for my ID I’m out.
Me too.
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Twenty years ago I could get on the internet and find live links to any sporting event I wanted. Now giant conglomerates stop that and you won't see anything you don't pay for.
We aren't asleep dumbass. We are just a nation of abject cowards and spineless pussies and the only people who aren't are so stupid they got duped into fascism.
That may be true but there must be something done about being anonymous online saying whatever option as facts which have real life consequences. Majority of stuff online wouldn't be there if people couldn't hide their identity. There must be some rules and regulations otherwise it gets abused.
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I take the view that they know anyway as they have secret access to all sites. The people they worry about are the ones with no social media footprint.
Then we need to build so.ething that cant be taken away from the people. www.hivegeist.us/2025/07/31/t...
Where the hell is the rest of America?
If they really wanted to protect the kids they'd make sure they had free meals at school, and weren't tearing apart government funded programs that help parents but groceries.
I've never been asked for an ID check on Youtube. But I use a VPN and don't have an account
YouTube demonetized my cannabis channel (after years of monetization and encouragement from them to create it) to "protect the children from questionable content." So I'm sure they will be giving me back the ability to monetize now... right?
To be fair, how else is the American government going to ensure you don’t say something mean about the Donald ?
But fox can lie all day long
That’s actually been obvious for quite some time. Privacy has been an illusion for a while.
mullvad.net 👀
Kinda reminds you of the woke cancel culture we suffered through the past 10 years
When the internet becomes ID only, I'm done with the internet. Besides, once they force the majority on to ID sanctioned and verified internet, those of us who don't want any of it will run free with the hijinx.
Truth
I thought the righty tighty whiteys were all about parents having total control over their kids so they should be apoplectic over the govt intervening re the internet.
That bus sailed into the ocean when they said" they are eating cats and dogs" and trump was elected by Elon and Peter Thiel.
I will maintain my anonymity so I can tell anyone I want to eat shit and die. Including, and especially, the federal fucking government.
