cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46331006
It’s ironic to see those same global elites who love partying with the likes of known & convicted child sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein now urging worldwide restrictions on E2E / VPN & promoting age, biometric, and identity verification online - all in the name of protecting children
It’s also highly suspicious that so many of the world’s biggest countries are trying to implement this wider internet control at the same time.
Feels like a major push toward authoritarianism to me.
It’s messed up how the people always have to fight to wrest any rights from those in power, and then fight even harder to keep them!
Epstein Elites want to know where the children are for their personal enjoyment. Nothing has changed other than they seek a more efficient way to find kids and protect themselves.
If your rights are on the ballot, you’ve already lost them, it’s just a matter of if you will get them back and how regulated they will be if you do.
I keep hearing all this “digital ID” stuff is about identifying people. And social media bans for kids/young teens is about prying them away from screens. I’m starting to see another side of it. I think they want to control the news people receive. You can already see the big news organisations toeing the line, not calling Israeli or American genocide or piracy what it actually is, but liberally using those terms when Iranians and the Chinese and some other do the exact same thing. So I think the goal is to control the news people see, and marginalise the news that does not play ball, for the rest of the people. So if you question the orange dictator or one of those countries, you’re not seen as reasonable, you’re seen as bizarre.
