If you’re a parent like me, you probably share my concern about what kids are up to on their phones at 2 a.m.—doom-looping reels—being served sexualized ads—talking to strangers in online forums.
As I understand the best age verification processes are third-party app/info services. That is, you prove your age to some third party, all they have is your name and that you’re above a certain age. That way you’re not giving your information to every company. And, if the ID company is hacked, the hackers don’t get anything but the fact that you’re older than a certain number.
First I completely agree with John on the fact that we need to parent our kids, not the tech companies. Dads need to be Dads and protect their own kids from intruders into our homes, including digital ones. For what it is worth my kids don't have personal screens and they are pretty happy and well adjusted. I don't worry about my kids on their phones at night - because we didn't give into the marketing team at Apple that decided kids should have them.
You say "Screen time’s a plague. I hate it." Then end it in your house. Time for the adults to start being in charge again.
agree! I opted out of having the whole fighting w/ my son over screen time by not giving him his own device/phone/ tablet...anything in the first place! I don't want to spend my free time monitoring their usage or checking their messages. When he's upstairs in his room, I know he's sleeping and not doom scrolling.
This also goes into school - how every grade/ absence/ assignment/ health status is on their school portal under the guise of it being so "convenient" for the parents to see if their child did their school work, passed a test, etc. NO thanks! I opted out of that too by homeschooling. A life undocumented can be a life well-lived.
Digital IDs start as “protection” and end up re-architecting trust into a surveillance layer. What begins as safety becomes the map people trust while losing sight of the territory of autonomy and privacy. Systems that optimize for control often eat the very freedoms they claim to defend.
Nice to see the world catching up to what I've been saying for 5 years (and I not the only one; others for longer I'm sure).
Here's the whole picture.
Taxation, inflation and regulation to strip you of all private property so you'll "own nothing and be happy" dependent on the State for everything.
The chain.
DEI-driven, ESG-based social credit score raised or lowered to grant or prevent access to resources provided by the State through all doors you now open freely.
House, car, train, plane, doctor, hospital, grocery store, bank, etc.
The whip.
All-electric grid surveilled by AI covering every inch of the globe (Bill Gates alone has the satellite access).
Nowhere to run or hide.
100% wealth redistribution in the name of victim groups and this or that justice except it all ends up at the top with nothing going to the useful idiots or the victims who now vote for them (like all good communist regimes).
No borders. One unelected world government run through the UN. Emergencies declared by them in order to grab all power.
Election security is the answer, and that's the main reason we're in Venezuela.
Last week's article by Elizabeth Nickson on substack (Welcome to Absurdistan) covers Smartmatic, Venezuela, the history & mechanics of global election rigging... and reached 100k+ readers. It's a huge development. Deserves to be shared with abandon:
Start listening at 52:40 for about 15 min. Dr. Douglas Frank and Emerald Robinson give the state of our elections and details as to how Trump was able to win 2024 plus the inside information on what happened then and what's happening now. You won't hear it anywhere else.
As I understand the best age verification processes are third-party app/info services. That is, you prove your age to some third party, all they have is your name and that you’re above a certain age. That way you’re not giving your information to every company. And, if the ID company is hacked, the hackers don’t get anything but the fact that you’re older than a certain number.
First I completely agree with John on the fact that we need to parent our kids, not the tech companies. Dads need to be Dads and protect their own kids from intruders into our homes, including digital ones. For what it is worth my kids don't have personal screens and they are pretty happy and well adjusted. I don't worry about my kids on their phones at night - because we didn't give into the marketing team at Apple that decided kids should have them.
You say "Screen time’s a plague. I hate it." Then end it in your house. Time for the adults to start being in charge again.
agree! I opted out of having the whole fighting w/ my son over screen time by not giving him his own device/phone/ tablet...anything in the first place! I don't want to spend my free time monitoring their usage or checking their messages. When he's upstairs in his room, I know he's sleeping and not doom scrolling.
This also goes into school - how every grade/ absence/ assignment/ health status is on their school portal under the guise of it being so "convenient" for the parents to see if their child did their school work, passed a test, etc. NO thanks! I opted out of that too by homeschooling. A life undocumented can be a life well-lived.
Digital IDs start as “protection” and end up re-architecting trust into a surveillance layer. What begins as safety becomes the map people trust while losing sight of the territory of autonomy and privacy. Systems that optimize for control often eat the very freedoms they claim to defend.
AMEN! just read another substacker who has lost paying subs due to
australia’s online “ safety” law that requires ID.
https://open.substack.com/pub/maryannedemasi/p/dear-reader?r=88dyo&utm_medium=ios
Nice to see the world catching up to what I've been saying for 5 years (and I not the only one; others for longer I'm sure).
Here's the whole picture.
Taxation, inflation and regulation to strip you of all private property so you'll "own nothing and be happy" dependent on the State for everything.
The chain.
DEI-driven, ESG-based social credit score raised or lowered to grant or prevent access to resources provided by the State through all doors you now open freely.
House, car, train, plane, doctor, hospital, grocery store, bank, etc.
The whip.
All-electric grid surveilled by AI covering every inch of the globe (Bill Gates alone has the satellite access).
Nowhere to run or hide.
100% wealth redistribution in the name of victim groups and this or that justice except it all ends up at the top with nothing going to the useful idiots or the victims who now vote for them (like all good communist regimes).
No borders. One unelected world government run through the UN. Emergencies declared by them in order to grab all power.
Election security is the answer, and that's the main reason we're in Venezuela.
Last week's article by Elizabeth Nickson on substack (Welcome to Absurdistan) covers Smartmatic, Venezuela, the history & mechanics of global election rigging... and reached 100k+ readers. It's a huge development. Deserves to be shared with abandon:
https://open.substack.com/pub/elizabethnickson/p/the-electorate-isnt-5050-the-real?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=kgdno
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Get involved locally.
Cause of America
https://causeofamerica.org/
Dr. Douglas Frank, Mike Lindell. etc.
===== ELECTION SECURITY UPDATE...LATEST STEVE STERN CALL 1217/25 =====
https://rumble.com/v733l9u-final-election-integrity-call-of-2025-december-17-100-pm-est.html
Start listening at 52:40 for about 15 min. Dr. Douglas Frank and Emerald Robinson give the state of our elections and details as to how Trump was able to win 2024 plus the inside information on what happened then and what's happening now. You won't hear it anywhere else.
https://rumble.com/v733l9u-final-election-integrity-call-of-2025-december-17-100-pm-est.html
Greg Stenstrom 1:47:40. Outlines how courts are refusing too rule on all the evidence presented.
It only moves the actual problem to another place