Age Verification
In which Rat isn't worried
Good time of Friday, humans!
Transcript:
Human: — Rat, but how do you deal with that age verification demand on the interwebs?
Rat: — I just show them the old passport of one of my ancestors.
Rat: — It’s good to have a trash… I mean, a family archive.
Prediction: it will soon be discovered that all these age verification procedures don’t really achieve anything. Sadly, it will probably make Them™ double down on dropping hassles on humans and rodents.
P.S. Human is dealing with another long five-day weekend and will hardly be seen online. Hopefully, today he’ll make it back home in time to prepare this week’s Rats’ Travels.
What's the harm? I mean, it's worked so well at keeping teenagers from buying beer and cigarettes, right?
Uh..... it's "papers please" shot into the stratosphere...
Australia has just taken a giant leap toward the Digital ID prison. This letter is from spooked a subscriber there two nights ago:
"I have been asked to verify my age and give a photo. I will not do this.
Very sorry - I wish to unsubscribe. I am sorry this will affect your substack :(
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Hi Jason, thanks for your personal reply. I am in Australia.
I was asked to scan a facial photo, which you will understand, is not acceptable.
I am happy to stay subscribed if not for that. i will also be changing my email address but
will wait until this is resolved. Thanks for your time."
I checked with Substack to resolve this, they referred me to the Australian government... It also turns out the blue-prints for this digital prison rollout were game-theoried to crash subscription based authors (independent free press/free speech) across platforms all over the world via vicious chargeback fees that have, mysteriously, soared to absurdity over the past couple of years—If uses cannot cancel their accounts and yet are still being charged for content they cannot access, the kneejerk recourse will be CC chargebacks. From Agent131711:
"If 300 people file chargebacks against me, just in $15 chargeback fees, that is $4,500 that I must gift to the bank for no legitimate reason. This is in addition to the refund to each individual. Let’s say those 300 people each paid $5 for a monthly membership. That is another $1,500. Just these two amounts come to $6,000 to refund $1,500 because Substack chose to lock people out of their accounts instead of giving them a chance to close the account and deactivate their subscriptions."
(Another "by design" lock-in: By locking them out, users cannot cancel and/or delete their data, which now will surely be weaponized against them as the noose tightens.)
We are running ever closer, ever faster and will soon tumble into this Digital ID, Vaccine Passport, Social Credit, Carbon Footprint, CBDC, 15 Minute open air prison, and should we fail to meaningfully act, we will soon be, like the Australians and Europeans, rendered "dumb and silent and led like sheep to the slaughter":
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The global system fractures that began in earnest on 9/11/2001 - those that eroded the very foundations of freedom in the United States - survived by the ceaseless wars in the middles east, the 2008 economic meltdown, the extended conflicts in both Ukraine and Israel synergized with Epstein, climate change, and the burgeoning threats of hyper-inflation and cyber-security warnings targeting critical infrastructure.
The AI narrative and the emergence of the Digital ID protocol enabling absolute censorship—and the total surveillance such an endeavor demands—and all of this fused with the myriad of contrived problems and “solutions” spawned by the unprecedented world-wide PSYOP known as the COVID-19 pandemic - - - are the combined collective smokescreens and bludgeons being wielded by the powers that should’t be in order to execute a blanket world-wide coup, and if we do not stop this madness we will soon find ourselves locked inside a technological panopticon prison unlike anything seen in history.
The reason we are in this mess running headlong into tyranny is because the majority of people refuse to believe that the controllers would ever do this to us. These eternal optimists appear to be blind to this most fundamental construct of human nature: that power attracts and then corrupts nearly everyone who wields it—and the globalists - those obscure puppetmaster billionaires you never read about in Forbes and who've spent decades away from the disinfectant properties of sunlight - have indeed become quite corrupted.
I’ve tried and failed countless times to open their eyes to the truth of the situation – that the elites are evil incarnate, and that they want most of us dead, and that they want to enslave the rest of us.
And the stunning part about their blindness is that none of this is new: the psychopaths often rise to the top of every power structure over time as the bad drives out the good and as such tyranny has taken control of nations many many times throughout history. This time is no different, and the freedom we take for granted has actually been an aberration from the historical norm.
If people still cannot see this given how obvious what is occurring has become - and if we that do see should fail to act with something impactfulful enought to halt it - I do not see how we have any hope of turning the tide. The normies will just keep on complying and believing what’s being done to them is for the greater good while they drag themselves and the rest of us into totalitarianism.
Solutions can be found at the bottom of this article: https://archive.is/KjznA
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And Still the People Didn't See, by Geoff Buys Cars, January 2023
The first to arrive were the cameras
Installed to protect both you and me
In places where we weren't that threatened
And yet the people didn't see
What followed were traffic restrictions
To keep the roads quiet and clean
The maths didn't add up, or the science
But still the people didn't see
Next came the 15 minute neighbourhoods
Make our lives easier, decreed
To some, it seemed like restrictions
But still the people didn't see
Then came the Digital ID
So convenient, easy and free!
Your life in one chip on a mainframe
And still the people didn't see
The cars they sold were electric
All wired to the government PC
They switched off the driving on Sundays
Yet still the people didn't see
The banks moved their money to digital
The government banned cash the next week
The ability to fly was restricted
Yet still the people didn't see
They linked up your money and profile
To the ID on the government PC
Connected it to social media
Yet still the people didn't see
Then came a new cure, a new virus
Safe and Effective, and free
They linked these j&bs to your profile
And connected the government PC
When the people were locked up in cities
Policed by their digital ID
Unable to visit their loved ones
Now finally the people can see
Restricted and tracked with no money,
To go further a permit you'll need
Contained in your digital city
Oh why did the people not see?!
These steps they sold us a progress
Never looked to be quite what they seemed
If you don't ask the questions and protest
Then your children will never know FREE