Fuck Me in the Hell

“Senate Commerce is eyeing July 29 for the big kids and AI markup.

The date isn’t finalized but the session is likely to include KOSA, Cruz priorities like his chatbots bill and potentially even measures on “catastrophic risk.”

This is not talking about the kids act, which is a separate thing from this, but either way, calling your representatives to tell them to stop the kids act and Kosa are very important

call em

Bluesky just push the age verification laws onto texans like myself and many others, and it’s harming our access to speech freely on these apps. What type of freedom is there if we have to give our privacy and security to these companies, to people that will use it against us one day and still limit what we get to say.

So please continue to call or email your congress, our freedom of speech on the internet depends on it!

Here’s the links to help make things easier to you:

I think all of that fuckery that's going on right now is doing that because whereas before the evil people were rich and trying to slowly gain control of everything, now they're trying to gain control of everything and they feel pressured to get it done while they still can.

It's not a secret on here that The Specialized Class is trying to turn everyone else into their subjects. Though I don't think I've ever seen anyone else in our world call them by that name. We all know they're fucking our rights up on purpose. What I think is causing them to be especially different to how they were before is that they know we're waking up, and they can see that time is running out for them. They can see that time is running out for both sides.

Bad shit was happening in 2023 too, but I think a landmark part of good consumer action in recent years was 2024's and 2025's major rise of Stop Killing Games. This was were I first saw a major upshot in it. The point I'm making is that seeing Stop Killing Games happen must have been a wakeup call for the global elite who are trying to control us.

Obviously it's not the only thing, and obviously this was after some of the really fucked up threats started, but I believe it's a big player.

Stop Killing Games must have really made the 1% worried, I think they were scared when they saw for the first time in my own memory that we the people can rise up to induce serious change through the system, even if it is really difficult and complicated. Plus I bet seeing thousands of Clippies everywhere with the pretense of uniting against consumer screwoffs must have been really haunting, if they saw it.

I don't think that ESA blurt about Minecraft servers was just ignorance, I think it was a retaliation. I'm plenty familiar with politicians who want something bad other than what they're explicitly saying they want twisting things to achieve their evil goals. In New Zealand's "Beehive" parliament, you get a lot of National Party speeches that go on a while but don't mean anything other than "wasting time" when you actually analyze them for a second.

People are waking up to how dangerous and rigged this world is everywhere, and the unfortunate convention I'm seeing is that for some reason the wider Internet tends to make almost all of the working class' urgent journalism go through YouTube. YouTube is where you go to see how the world is going now, whether it's from news organizations, or a professional Joe who's one of us and who has a webcam and a good discerning brain for secretive bad news. I don't remember the last time I went to a non-micro blog to find this stuff out. Tumblr blogging, by the way, is not real blogging. (Though I haven't read much of it, Steam Me Up Kid was what Internet historians would call a real blog.) This could be why YouTube is under attack, or why YouTube is deliberately fucking up its own self. I know I get a lot of information on these horrible things going on from Tumblr, though. But Tumblr is more social media, and YouTube is more news outlet than previously.

Facial recognition and age-verification on The Internet seems like the perfect way to crush and detain everybody who tries to save their world after the fact.

So, what I'm saying is that the ruling class - in my theory - is more insane in 2026 with what they're doing than ever because they desperately want to make the final push against our rights before it's too late. We also need to push before it's too late. We're starting to get to some eleventh hour shit.

You remember when I made that post about Google's new tos?

Yeah, I was kinda wondering why no one seemed to be talking about the age verification bit...until I saw this comment...

https://x.com/i/status/2071014627622686784

So I went to check and...

https://policies.google.com/terms/archive/20220105?hl=en-GB

https://policies.google.com/terms/archive/20240522?hl=en-GB

https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en-GB

https://policies.google.com/terms/update?hl=en-GB

(these are all from different dates and years, just scroll down until you reach the bit that says "age requirements")

...that person was right...these ALL say the same thing, even before all this age verification shit started...

Obviously I'm gonna keep you updated if anything in terms of age verification does happen...but I'm going to be REALLY pissed off at myself if July 30th rolls around and it turns out I've been freaking out over NOTHING🫩

⭐️🌐GOOGLE TERMS OF SERVICE UPDATE!🌐⭐️

I'm pretty sure Google has always made you have a minimum age requirement to own an account.

You have to literally put your age in to have an account. I think that is what they might be talking about. If I remember, isn't it like 12 or 13? I know you ATLEAST have to be a teen to own one.

I don't think they mean literal face scanning age verfication stuff for everyone. I think it would be bigger news if it was. I remember when Google pulled that last year for the UK/US, and the news was huge!

I guess we will see!

So in the last twenty four hours, I've seen a lot of stuff about Lindsey Graham, a possible update on Mitch McConnell where he provides proof of life but is no longer capable of serving in the Senate, and a few other things of that nature. I am also under the impression that tomorrow, on Monday the 13th of July, the Senate returns after being in either recess, or something equivalent to it but formally different somehow.

What this says to me is that tomorrow is probably a good time to call your Senators and voice concerns and protests about the KIDS Act package and the legislation that went into it, including not only KOSA but the EARN IT Act and SCREEN Act. I believe the latter two were heavily influenced by Graham, and he may have even introduced one or both; we've been fighting this kind of legislation for a while and a lot has happened in that time span, so I cannot remember precisely and my notes are in considerable disarray. Whatever the case, he is no longer in a position to advocate, lobby, promote, or favor-trade for it. I do not at this time have access to information on when the Senate will be taking up any specific legislation, but the loss of one GOP Senator (possibly two) shaves their already thin majority down even further until interim appointments can be made / special elections held. Majority Leader Thune is almost certainly having to recalculate a lot of political math right now, and he was already trying to thread the needle between the president's obsession with the SAVE Act and the backlash from voters and polling.

Remember to frame your position according to what resonates with the personal and party politics of the Senator you are calling. Statistically speaking, Democrats are more likely to listen to concerns about Trump using this legislation to silence free speech, which he does more than enough of already. Republicans on the other hand are more likely to hear concerns about the economy and national security grounds, and with the whole Iran and Strait of Hormuz thing going on right now, both are VERY topical. However these are general trends, and some topics will be much more and less important to individual elected officials, so figuring out what those are in advance is a good idea.

chances are I can't. my body is that of a disabled Asian woman.

the facial markers of childhood on a white person- prominent monolid eyes, round faces without prominent cheekbones, clear, smooth skin devoid of wrinkles, lack of facial hair- are traits that many adults of Asian descent, many in their fifties and sixties even, have to an extent that several of my (adult, mind you) relatives and friends have been declared to be in their teens, or even to be preteens or 8-year-olds, by an algorithm that associated those features with childhood rather than ethnicity and lineage.

I can usually figure out how to look directly at a camera, if I try hard enough. but from what I've seen of Roblox's face verification process, it also needs you to move your eyes slowly from left to right so it can determine you're using live footage of a real person.

simple, right? wrong. I can't do that. I can kind of move my eyes a short distance(and it always hurts like hell, especially when I do it consciously), and I can change what part of my vision I'm paying attention to, but otherwise my only way to change what I'm looking at is to turn my entire head. and it clearly doesn't accept head-turning as "looking from left to right".

I don't have any other facial differences that might mess with the algorithm recognizing my face as a face- and that's a related problem that's already been documented by numerous people and organizations like Face Equality International.

having a credit card is not proof of adulthood

not all adults have credit cards

I do not trust an algorithm trained on white people not to decide all Asians and Blacks are 12-year-olds

dude if the government can be hacked Discord('s shady third party data processor) definitely can be as well

I don't trust a random corporation with data that sensitive

“The New Zealand government has officially denied any plans to restrict or ban VPN apps as part of its upcoming under-16 social media ban, putting an end to intense speculation and a rapid backlash from digital privacy advocates.”

“The saga began following a report from The Post that Education Minister Erica Stanford said the government was considering any restrictions on VPNs as part of the country's under-16 social media ban.

Because a Virtual Private Network (VPN) can easily spoof a user's location and bypass local network blocks, the technology was viewed by some officials as a potential roadblock to enforcing age verification mandates.”

This notion of banning VPNs sparked massive backlash

“Coalition partners quickly distanced themselves from the idea, with the ACT party reportedly marking any anti-encryption measures as a strict red line”

“The Free Speech Union also lambasted the concept.

Critics warned that a VPN ban would undermine digital free speech and put New Zealand in the same category as oppressive regimes that strictly control internet access.”

after the backlash

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon put the rumors firmly to rest. "I can reject that outright. There's no plan to ban VPNs at all," Luxon said. "I don't know where that reporting or where that story came from, but I can reassure you that's not the case".

source

Users have been noticing that Bluesky has been asking them to verify their age

This isn’t new for some, but recently it started happening with users in Texas (or Bluesky believes are in Texas)

“A large blue button instructed users to verify their ages.

Those who didn't want to were directed to either log out or delete their account entirely.

Many Bluesky users were unable to access the age verification screen and were instead given an error.

But users who did found that their options to verify their ages included putting in the last four digits of their Social Security Number, inputting a credit card number or having their driver's license scanned.”

According to a spokesperson at Blusky, a new Texas law, the “App Store Accountability Act” has been allowed to be enforced

Blusky safety said

“Texas passed an age assurance law that requires Bluesky to verify the age of users. This law was paused by a judge and then unpaused by an appeals court, so we are preparing to comply. If you saw an age assurance notice today”

Though this law is still being fought and might be taken down in the future

Many users are not excited because they don’t trust companies keeping their IDs or sensitive information

wanna get past the block on websites or even the app itself (depending on the method)

... Have you considered i am stupid?

Like, okay self depressing shit aside.

I should not, as a fucking adult, have to give up my ssn number to a fucking site to see shit.

I shouldn't have to risk my livelyhood because visa and mastercard are scared of pussy and dicks.

I should not, have to share my movements at all times to anyone. This is protecting no one, this is in fact dangerorous for everyone involved in having data leeks. Theres no kids being protected there's just our personal info being traded and sold like playing cards.

And in places where we have these age verification bans in effect, they ALSO want to ban VPN's, the thing yall tote as THE solution.

Not to mention, there's learning about vpns you have to do, the research, are you going to pay another fucking bill to access the internet that you already probably pay for on say a phone where you pay yet another bill for-

And what point is it enough!?!?

I NEVER AGREED TO THIS BULLSHIT AND NEITHER DID THE REST OF US.

And yet, AND YET. IF YOU WANTED TO HELP KIDS, WE'D BE WORKIN ON THE EPSTEIN FILES.

There is no saving children, only turning you into a product to be exploited.