Louis Rossmann doing a total fisk of the bullshit ‘results’ of the UK Government’s survey on age verification. As he points out, many of the questions did not offer a ‘I don’t want any age verification’ option in the answers.
#AgeVerification #UKPolitics

https://youtu.be/ICwMUfQg7mc

#UK unveils sweeping #SocialMediaBan for users under 16

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/uk-unveils-sweeping-social-media-ban-for-users-under-16/

#privacy #SocialMedia #AgeVerification #cybersecurity #censorship

#UK may ban #SocialMedia for children under 16

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/14/uk-may-ban-social-media-for-children-under-16/

#SocialMediaBan #privacy #AgeVerification #censorship

UK"banning" SM for under-16s and requiring the rest of us to be carded. https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116753407107394975
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org - Banning under-16s online restricts access to information while creating huge privacy risks.

Instead the UK government should target the root cause of online harms.

#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship

The government has ignored calls to regulate age verification companies to ensure our sensitive data is protected.

Instead it has expanded ID checks to multiply the risks.

But the actual cause of harms is off the hook – how platforms use our data to monetise our attention.

Sign the petition ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/break-big-tech

#stopKillingInternet #StopKillingTheInternet #socialmediaban #socialmedia #ageverification #onlinesafety #privacy #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol #dataprotection

With the worldwide wave of social media bans on major platforms aka digital verification, I wonder if we'll see an influx of people to the #fediverse

🤞🤞🤞 Here is hoping <3

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Ageverification #SocialMediaban #new

“Soon it will be virtually impossible to be online in the UK without handing over identity documents or biometric data to unregulated companies.”

The social media ban means EVERY user has to prove they're over 16. This puts millions at risk of their personal data being hacked.

🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366644294/Big-tech-must-introduce-age-checks-to-support-UKs-under-16s-social-media-ban

#stopKillingInternet #StopKillingTheInternet #socialmediaban #socialmedia #ageverification #onlinesafety #privacy #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol

Starmer’s Social Media Ban: the Reinvention of the Surveillance State

Tyranny masquerading as child safety needs you to feel guilty before you feel suspicious. Downing Street is counting on it.

https://reclaimthenet.org/starmers-social-media-ban-surveillance-state

#UK #AgeVerification #IdVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology

We already restrict our kids access to the internet. No government necessary!

I do agree kids under about 14-15 should be kept far far away from social media and user generated content. But age verification is not the way, parents need to enforce it if they want it, not a state ordered digital ID.

#ageVerification #digitalID #surveilance #kosa #socialMedia

""Every failed attempt to make children safer online is followed by more surveillance and censorship," he said. "Children have rights too and these policies will harm their free expression and privacy rights, and push them into less regulated spaces. Meanwhile the business models driving harms are untouched."

Others questioned whether the measures can realistically be enforced. Mark Jones, an online harms specialist and partner at law firm Payne Hicks Beach, noted that the consultation closed only weeks ago and warned that determined teenagers have a habit of finding ways around restrictions.

"A social media ban only helps if it is genuinely enforceable," Jones said. "If large numbers of young people simply circumvent the restrictions, parents will just lose visibility into where their children are actually spending time online rather than reclaiming any control."

The political case for the crackdown appears relatively straightforward, but the practical one is less so. The government now has to persuade social media companies to enforce the rules and teenagers not to find ways around them."

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/15/britain-plots-digital-bedtime-after-kicking-under-16s-off-social-media/5255341

#UK #AgeVerification #NannyState #Surveillance #Oligopolies #Censorship #BigBrother #BigTech #Privacy #Anonymity

Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.

I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.

This is not a drill.

If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.

They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊

#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

The Texas Attorney General is using this garbage Discord lawsuit to push for age verification. The same AG who was on the run from the law just a short time ago with his wife. Republicans are despicable humans.
#uspol #ageverification #texas
https://youtu.be/AwSWKaEB4ms

"So we’re giving children their childhoods back."

... while at the same time, denying adults their adulthood.

If you are a parent, and do not want your child to access social media (or any other kind of website), that is YOUR responsibility to fix, not mine. I should not have to go through privacy-endangering age-verification processes to protect YOUR little darling from engaging in internet use that you do not approve.

#SocialMediaBan #AgeVerification #Starmer #Labour

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A tweet by Keir Starmer: "We are banning social media access for under 16s. These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life. I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back."

@nixCraft Rmeember:

- #AgeVerification is just "#KYC" under #FalsePretenses

and

- #KYC (aka. coerced #SelfDoxxing) IS the Illicit Activity!

NEVER comply with EITHER!

RE: https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/116753869821948051

Unintended consequences - The age verification debate is backwards. It prioritizes theoretical risks to privileged kids over documented harms to those already marginalized. For disabled youth, LGBTQ+ teens, and kids in unstable homes, social media isn't a distraction—it's a lifeline. Banning access punishes the most vulnerable while doing nothing about algorithmic harms. Real policy would protect without erasing. #AgeVerification #DigitalEquity #DisabilityJustice #a11y #MarginalizedVoices

please sign this! protect privacy and freedom on the British internet!!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757233

#AgeVerification #UK #UKPol #OSA #OnlineSafetyAct

I cannot access #Vimeo at all anymore without #AgeVerification

I get a blocking prompt when I start the app. I cannot even see the videos that I *bought* a few years ago!

The verification process requires that I send them a selfie... Ahhh... No.

For everyone from Europe and outside of the EU: repost this, share it everywhere all over every online platform and use the links down below. We only make a difference if we continue with our uproars against #chatcontrol and #ageverification. Do whatever you can and educate everyone about why the proposals are bad.

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/degitalisierung-statusstress/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViirnWnoreA

fightchatcontrol.eu

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/tell-the-eu-dont-break-encryption-with-chat-control/

https://crm.edri.org/stop-scanning-me

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/1pl529v/government_proposes_to_criminalize_vpn_use_for/

#Authoritarian tech policy:

- #ChatControl,
- #Ageverification,
- #Google / #Apple #control,
- #Digital #app use etc

Discord plans to move forward with their global age verification measures. It could come as early as next month. Now’s the time to move away from Discord if you do not want go through the process.

https://theprivacycloud.substack.com/p/discord-will-enable-global-age-verification

#privacy #ageverification #anonymity #discord

On the subject of age gating, the FCC's proposed "know your customer" (ID for SIM cards) and all the rest of these Internet control and censorship proposals:

What I see happening is that either the entire communications network splits into two pieces that may not even talk to each other, or that the legal Internet collapses entirely as people walk away from ID verified communications.

If it's just age verification, the darknet will flower like never before, you may well find me on Tor-only servers for instance.

If it's also SIM registration I will probably be able to get a foreign data-only tourist SIM and use it in roaming mode.

If that gets blocked I will fall back to wifi-only like prior to 2011. If that too goes away, I will be signing off the formerly open Internet entirely and only using mesh networks, physical media, possibly pirate 2 way radio, and word of mouth.

Under no circumstance will I log into or access any of my previous work on any device linked to me by any kind of ID document. Nor will I use any device, serice, or website asking for one

#AgeVerification #censorship #FCC

Mullvad warns that age-verification rules are expanding worldwide, often requiring ID-based checks that reduce online anonymity. 🔐
The article highlights risks of OS-level enforcement and VPN restrictions, while EU zero-knowledge age credentials may still fall back to identity-linked systems. 🧱

@mullvadnet

🔗 https://mullvad.net/en/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internet

#TechNews #Privacy #AgeVerification #Surveillance #VPN #DigitalRights #DataPrivacy #OnlineSafety #Censorship #Identity #Freedom #FOSS #Encryption #EU #TechPolicy

If #ageverification was truly the only way to keep children safe, the #govt would issue a child ID which automatically expires when they turn 16/18/21.

Yet, not one single country has done so. The ID's could also be used at schools, for public transport concessions etc. They would not be a waste of money and may actually make children just a little safer.

Alas.. that's not the goal of age verification.
Doing nothing at all would have kept kids safer than this.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@joho/116730558955694159

Did anyone propose age verification for TV-News?

If not, why?

Can you really broadcast pictures and videos of corpses and massacres at 7 PM without checking, whether an 8-year old is in front of the TV?

Block Imgur but show pictures of dead people attacked by a terrorist in a car?

Yeah, hypocrites.

The entire age verification BS is a lobby-endeavour sponsored by Meta.

#ageverification #privacy #meta #socialmediaban

Matthew Fennell boosted

Joaquim Homrighausen » 🌐 2026-06-11
@joho@mastodon.online

Age verification ...

#privacy #privacymatters #ageverification #socialmedia #surveillance #dataskydd #dataprotection #gdpr #deepstate

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A meme related to age verification on the Internet

How and Why to Fight Back Against #SocialMedia Bans

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/how-and-why-fight-back-against-social-media-bans

#privacy #AgeVerification #SocialMediaBan

This didn't convince me that Palestinian car stopped and baby was shot dead. I see no car, I see no baby. I am not going to upload my sensitive personal ID documents into a corporate surveillance.

"New footage from Hebron: The moment an Israeli soldier fatally shoots 7-month-old Sam Abu Haikal"

In my opinion, B'Tselem is incompetent.

https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20250609_new_footage_from_hebron_the_moment_an_israeli_soldier_fatally_shoots_7_month_old_sam_abu_haikal

#incompetence #censorship #youtube #surveillance #genocide #murder #gaslighting #israel #btselem #ageverification

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footage censored

Age verification ...

#privacy #privacymatters #ageverification #socialmedia #surveillance #dataskydd #dataprotection #gdpr #deepstate

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A meme related to age verification on the Internet

#Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/08/starmer-tech-firms-ultimatum-block-explicit-images-children-phones

#privacy #censorship #cybersecurity #politics #UK #AgeVerification

A thread to Stop ID Surveillance from coming to Canada ⛔️🧵

Yesterday, I sent a long letter to the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Culture Minister Marc Miller, and the leaders of all other major federal parties in Canada.

I sent this letter to voice my concerns about the upcoming bill that is planned to be introduced today at 5 p.m. ET, to propose a ban of social media for children, therefore requiring all social media platforms to identify every adults accessing it.

This is a long thread of what I wrote (mute me for one hour if you don't want to see it).

Feel free to copy any parts you want to share in your own letter of opposition sent to your representatives this week.

Here's how to find their contact information: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/search

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#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

Today, the Canadian government wants to introduce a bill banning social media for children under 16.

This means requiring ID from every adults who want to access social media. This is a privacy and democracy nightmare.

"Ottawa is set to introduce legislation to enact what the government is calling the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act.

It’s expected to be introduced later Wednesday, with Culture Minister Marc Miller holding a news conference at 5 p.m. ET after a technical briefing."

https://globalnews.ca/news/11897929/social-media-ban-under-16/

Contact our Prime Minister Mark Carney and Culture Minister Marc Miller TODAY to voice your opposition:

mark.carney@parl.gc.ca
Marc.Miller@parl.gc.ca

Contact your local MP as well by finding their contact information here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/search

We must Stop ID Surveillance in Canada before it's too late.

#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #Authoritatianism

Online harms bill to include #SocialMediaBan for children under 16: Source

https://globalnews.ca/news/11894610/canada-social-media-ban-teens-online-harms-bill/

#Canada #politics #SocialMedia #AgeVerification #privacy #cybersecurity

Following the Australian precedence, Brazil, Greece, Turkey, and Malaysia have now passed laws requiring age checks for social media.

😡 But age verification and ID checks destroy everyone's #privacy. 😡

Learn what countries are planning a social media ban for teens and fight #AgeVerification 💪

👉https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

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Image shows the flags of different countries including Greece, Australia, Brasil, Turkey and Malaysia.

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Image shows the number 16 crossed out

How and Why to Fight Back Against #SocialMedia Bans

Several U.S. states are pushing to ban young people from social media entirely. This marks the latest wave of #censorship bills masquerading as “children’s online safety” measures, with states like #Massachusetts , #Idaho , #Minnesota , #NorthCarolina , #SouthCarolina , #Illinois , and EFF’s home state of #California leading the charge.

Just a few years ago, lawmakers supporting age-gating laws insisted their efforts were narrowly targeted at limiting young people’s access to adult content.
#agegating #ageverification
#privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/how-and-why-fight-back-against-social-media-bans

wait wtf? Things escalated from protecting to kids to going after burner #phones with age verification. The last reliable form of #privacy internet users had was the isp. There really is no reason if we have websites age verification, #appstores age verification, and #os #verification .

They don't want anyone to be #anonymous #fcc

#ageverification #idverification

sources:

https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

alternative source: https://www.androidheadlines.com/2026/06/fcc-proposal-anonymous-burner-phones-identity-rules.html

In reality, what they call age verification is abusive ID surveillance checks for everyone.

Start calling it what it is:
ID Surveillance.

We must all fight to Stop ID Surveillance.

#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #Privacy #HumanRights

Mainstream Media is Already Lying About Age Verification

It took one day for the word to get out about a forthcoming age verification bill and the lies are already being published.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-is-already-lying-about-age-verification/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #Canada #journalism #Media #NationalPost #SocialMedia

Michael Geist’s explainer: “…a kids’ social media ban is an ineffective and harmful policy that raises privacy concerns for tens of millions of Canadians through mandated age verification requirements. The policy fails to address the underlying concerns with social media and the prospect of a “temporary” ban makes little sense since the requirement might be reversible, but the data collection and regulatory infrastructure are permanent.”
#socialmediaban #ageverification

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-a-kids-social-media-ban-but-were-rightly-afraid-to-ask-a-faq-on-age-verification-and-mandated-id-for-everyone/

PRIVACY ALERT!
Please boost for reach! 🚨👇

The Canadian government is planning
to introduce a bill on Wednesday, June 10th, to mandate identity surveillance of every adult using social media in Canada! 👁️‍🗨️

https://globalnews.ca/news/11894610/canada-social-media-ban-teens-online-harms-bill/

A ban on social media for children
does nothing to reduce the harm caused by commercial social media. Instead, it means mandatory ID scans for every adult using social media.

We must stop this authoritarian proposal,
and demand our government focuses instead on reducing the harm for everyone using social media.

It has been explained by experts over and over that bans of social media are shortsighted lazy measures that do not help in the end, but in fact harm everyone, including the children.

Stop ID surveillance in Canada! ✊⛔️

Contact your MP and our Prime Minister TODAY to voice your opposition. Here's where to find their contact information: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/search

If you aren't aware of this issue yet, here's more information on age verification: https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification

#AgeVerification #Privacy #Canada #HumanRights #CanPoli #StopIDChecks #StopIDSurveillance

@signalapp.mastodon.world releases a statement on the UK government’s demand for #AgeVerification and content scanning. Agree with the core premise that surveillance is not the answer. Any approach must respect #privacy, human dignity, freedom (esp. for targeted communities), and choice.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf