"I had expected there would be much more of a watchful expectancy of the results of the Australian ban before governments would be jumping in quite as quickly," she told DW. "We don't know what the effects of the ban are going to be and we need to evaluate this carefully. Governments need to be careful to avoid thinking that social media bans are a silver bullet to this problem."

Almost as if there are ulterior motives...

What's worse for society is giving the ruling class and their politicians total visibility into what we are doing, online, in person, etc.

They are setting up new tech to feed all the data through threat detection/to make social scores on us, by the likes of Thiel and the worst people in the world at that, literal technofascists.

Age checks are a big part of that, it's the trojan horse to get inside the inner walls, and it won't end with that. They are playing us, to protect the kids, they are surrendering us to tech, which is run by people that fuck kids I would add, Thiel being a great Epstein pal, and not the only one.

These are the last people to trust, and any assurances the information will only be used to check age, not kept otherwise, not used for other reasons, are worth less than nothing. You are surrendering everything you do to silicon valley parasites in league with your government, with the aim of controlling what jobs you can get, which jobs will consider you from your resume to get to a real person at that, if you get that loan, pass the background check, how business treats you, police scrutiny and treatment, court attitude towards you, all the way down to the digital price tags online, and coming soon in stores. CCTV facial recogntion id's you, and they flash a specific price for you as you go by. To what search results engines will show you and your social media feed.

This is dystopian, and it's a betrayal of western culture and our ancient freedoms, not the least in Australia, repudiating English Common Law which thanks to the Magna Carta is the envy of the world, from a citizen's perspective. Or was. It's under attack, has been for half a century, but now being outright cancelled. First in Australia with the age checks, but most so in the UK, and the rest are following suit, to give Australia a taste of where their politicians are bringing them, just look to the homeland.

The right to protest is being cancelled, the right to present defenses that can win for these serious decade(s) plus possible punishments for unsanctioned protests charges, even before proscribing as terrorist direct action protest groups on dishonest, cynical arguments. Cancelling trial by jury, 1 year in prison by magistrate alone in 2020, and now 3 years, decided by a magistrate chosen by the famously cuntish old boy club of lawyers.

As Banksy showed us, the British Judge bludgeoning to death the protester outside the old bailey or whereever that was in that guerilla drawing on the walls last year. Then the masterbaitorbase, the state needs a record of every web page you have ever considered whacking off to, you know, for the kids. Kids that masterbait more than anyone, not so good letting these politicians, business leaders, data brokers, and everyone else that could get that information, for those kids. In fact it is more damaging to those kids than NOT collecting that personal information in the first place.

This is the "good" option to. Yay, "we" won with labour! The ruling party's reason for being is purging the left and popular reform from the party on bad faith allegations. They appointed someone they knew was deeply involved in epstein, and starmer is on his way out, and his same faction is going to nominate for prime minister Mandelson's protege, the epstein super pal's protege.

Why do their leaders need to be connected to Epstein? Is it because the donors that control the corporate and conservative faction of the labour party in power are afraid of their own culpability and want someone equally compromised to help protect them?