Darcat @darcat666

Ursula von der Leyen announced this week that everyone in the EU must use the official EU age verification app to verify their age before they can log into or post on social media and other digital services. As an expert in online child safety, I'm here to expose the disinformation in each von der Leyen's statements. See below. 🇪🇺 The EU Kids Act is a pretext designed to enforce mandatory digital identity verification on everyone in Europe. The proposed legislation applies to any digital service featuring feeds, user generated content, or messaging: Social media networks, video platforms, online gaming services, AI tools, and media streaming apps like Spotify. (@TimSweeneyEpic) Under the proposal, digital services must enforce age restrictions across strict tiers. Tech companies must mandate age verification across all accounts to enforce these tiers legally. When Australia introduced its social media ban, the government conceded it failed because platform level age checks weren’t reliable. They now reject age estimation as inadequate and shifted to demanding "robust" age checking. 💡 If you eliminate every unproven estimation method, you’re left with exactly 1 functional mechanism: identity verification. There's not other way to ensure age checking is "robust". No government wants to admit citizens must prove their real identity just to access apps and basic streaming services like Spotify, so they hide behind the ambiguous phrase "robust age checking". This language is now used across Australia, the US, and Ireland to mandate identity checks while avoiding the public backlash of calling it what it is. I will research to see where else it’s being used. Below is what Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Strasbourg along with my analsyis: 🇪🇺 "Today, much of this power has been taken out of the hands of parents... What our children need is time... But when a child has a smartphone, all of this is taken away." 💡 This framing falsely presents smartphones as uncontrollable. Apple and Google built free OS controls into iOS and Android settings, covering virtually every smartphone on the market. These controls achieve every legitimate safety objective without collecting personal data or processing state credentials. 💡 Millions of parents use these parental controls to enforce screen time curfews, block app installations, and restrict communication. 💡 These settings operate at the device level. Teens can't bypass them when protected with a passcode. To bypass this technical reality, the European Commission uses public grief to shut down logical analysis: 🇪🇺 "Day and night, parents see the costs, loss of sleep, anxiety, even self-harm, and in a growing number of cases, even fatal tragedies… a 14-year-old girl living in Belgium who took her life exactly one month ago, victim of bullying online... Honourable members, enough is enough." 💡 Citing personal tragedies replaces software engineering facts with emotional rhetoric. State laws and age gates don’t alter human behaviour or prevent online harassment. Regulators exploit grief to pass surveillance legislation without explaining how the underlying software mechanisms operate. The Commission outlines specific age tiers to restrict access: 🇪🇺 "In sum, no social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15. That means from 13 to under 15, only mini accounts set up and supervised by parents or guardians with limited features and time restriction to one hour a day. And between 15 and 18, safe design will be an obligation for the platforms." 💡 Enforcing age tiers forces tech companies and service providers to rebuild their architecture around total access control. The must disable self-service account creation, purge unverified accounts, build supervised parental workflows, strip algorithmic feeds, and enforce strict session cutoffs. 💡 Social networks operate on open interaction algorithms that inherently expose people to unvetted content. Because software can’t dynamically filter these risks for minors, tech companies must block access for everyone until a person proves their real identity. 💡 It’s not just about social networks. They want the same bans for almost everything, including games and stream services. Even Spotify because it’s possible for customers to message people. The Commission claims its proposed zero knowledge proof app protects personal privacy: 🇪🇺 "Age will be verified using EU certified tools like our age verification app. This app is built on zero knowledge proof. That means that the platform only learns one single thing, and that's whether you're old enough to allow access or not." 💡 This framing describes what an app or service receives while hiding what everyone must give up. A zero knowledge proof provides a mathematical confirmation, but that confirmation requires an authoritative issuer. Before the app generates a proof, a state approved entity must verify the person's real identity. The Commission frames this shift as a victory against tech corporations: 🇪🇺 "I am aware that many perceive the power of Big Tech as overwhelming and impossible to roll back. I disagree... So we do not accept this. We are reversing the burden of proof. Now platforms will have to prove to us that they are safe. Because this is not about our minors accessing social media. It is about when and how we allow social media to access our minors." 💡 Social networks don’t access children; parents hand smartphones to children. Reversing the burden of proof forces everyone to verify their identity. The European Commission confirmed the broader scope of this mandate: 🇪🇺 "We also know that not only minors are at risk. Addictive design, for example, are harming everyone. This is why we need a wider framework too, the Digital Fairness Act that we will propose in autumn." 🚨 Child safety is merely the initial wedge. The Digital Fairness Act expands state mandated identity verification to adults across all online services. Binding real identities to online activity permanently eliminates pseudonymous access, private communication, and democratic accountability. 🚨 Senior state officials and regulators know their demands have nothing to do with child safety. They work closely with tech companies and understand that iOS and Android already provide complete authority to restrict devices locally without collecting personal data. State officials deliberately ignore well established parental controls because they keep internet access under family control. Child safety is a public pretext. 🚨 Governments and regulators use child safety to establish mandatory identity verification across every app and digital service, eliminating online anonymity. When tech companies and state agencies link every social media post, private message, search term, geographic location, and financial transaction to a verified identity, they create a permanent digital dossier on every citizen with a global social graph that makes Cambridge Analytica look like a 2nd grade school science project. 💡 Binding people’s identity to daily activity enables predictive behavioural modelling too. By feeding identity data into automated predictive AI, governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and tech companies move beyond surveillance past behaviour. They can map political affiliations, predict individual actions, flag dissent before it occurs, and control public opinion at scale. Eliminating online anonymity ends free speech, private communication, and democratic accountability. As Larry Ellison stated at Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting in 2024: "Citizens will be on their best behaviour, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on". 🙏🏻 Share this to expose how governments use child safety as a false pretext to force mandatory digital identity verification on everyone. paulfwalsh.substack.com/p/the-eu-kids-…

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen

a month ago

Every day our children are engaging with some of the most sophisticated technology ever created. Technology that was not created with their wellbeing in mind. We need to set clear boundaries in the digital world. This is what our KIDS Act will do ↓ x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Palestinian children are killed by pure evil. Has Zionism reached such a level of arrogance, contempt, conceit, and hubris that the entire world has come to lie beneath its feet? That a Palestinian child should be left trapped between two ceilings, crying out for help: “I’m dying, uncle, from fear… and soon I’ll die because there’s no oxygen,” with no one coming to rescue him, only for his body to be pulled from the rubble three hours later? What kind of power is this that has made the life of a Palestinian child so cheap that the world’s rescue machinery cannot be mobilized to save him? And what kind of moral collapse is this that allows his cries to pass through the ears of humanity without awakening a conscience? Israel bombs, kills, besieges, and demolishes homes over the heads of their inhabitants, while blocking the delivery of aid, and then speaks of security and self-defense. The United States does not merely provide weapons, political cover, and financial and military support; it also uses its influence to shield Israel from accountability and participates in enforcing the siege and perpetuating the catastrophe, while sham peace boards and initiatives are put forward that keep the perpetrator in a position of power and the victim beneath the rubble. As for Europe, which never stops lecturing the world about human rights and international law, its actions expose it: arming or supporting Israel, providing political protection, and hesitating to take measures commensurate with the scale of the crimes. Declarations of concern and condemnation do not save a child, nor do they lift a single stone from his chest. And the Arab regimes? Some maintain a silence resembling the silence of graves, while others participate, directly or indirectly, in arrangements involving the siege, normalization, and security and political coordination, placing their calculations with Washington and Tel Aviv above Palestinian blood. Those who possess the ability to exert pressure but choose merely to watch cannot claim innocence from the consequences of that inaction. As for the Muslim world—with its institutions, governments, and organizations—it has failed to transform statements of solidarity, summits, and promises into real power capable of stopping the killing, breaking the siege, and rescuing those under siege. The children of Gaza cry out, officials speak, the occupation continues, and time passes… and then the victims are buried beneath the rubble. Power has colluded with silence, weapons have converged with impotence, and double standards have become a complete global system: they save those they choose to save, and they let a Palestinian die because he or she is Palestinian. Gaza does not expose the brutality of the occupation alone; it exposes an international system that has suffered a moral collapse, Arab and Muslim governments that have chosen calculations of power over the lives of innocents, and political and media elites that possess the capacity to speak and act, yet have failed to do enough. This child did not die alone. Something of the world’s conscience died with him, and many masks fell with him. His voice will remain a witness against everyone: against those who killed him, those who armed them, those who protected them, those who justified their actions, those who besieged him, and those who remained silent when they had the power to act. O people of Gaza, this child’s cry will not be just another passing news story. It will remain a moral indictment haunting this age, and a testimony to a world that watched a child suffocate beneath the rubble, then carried on with its life as though nothing had happened. And the question that will put this world on trial before history: How did you hear the cry of a child beneath the rubble… and not move?

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Here's a Good Irish Woman !!!!

"How do I answer... my precious son?" 💔🌾 "Empire of Dirt" now released...

@supressedvoic 🇮🇷

It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them. It includes: 64,537 videos 17,905 photos Ability to download individual videos Searchable index Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists) Geolocation data Livemap with minute to minute updates Victim list It can be accessed here: ArchiveGenocide.com Please share & quote tweet to help this post break out of the twitter algorithm prison. We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way. God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it. Join our telegram: t.me/+p_Ufon9FBOY0Y… Follow our backup accounts: @ZionismExposedx & @IsraelExposedAr

They had me fired. Arrested 4 times. Suspended my medical licence. Smeared me in every paper. Now the British zionist jewish lobby is attacking my fundraiser! It cost me £90,000 to defend my licence. I live on what remains of my life savings. I set up a Chuffed fundraiser to tackle police harassment and keep me on my feet. Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is now threatening Chuffed with police action. They want to destroy me. I am a Palestinian and a British citizen. I have never had a patient complaint. Never broken the law. Worked for 7 years in the NHS. Cared for my fellow British citizens. Paid my taxes. My crime? I opposed genocide and jewish supremacy. Exposed their grip on Britain. That's it. My response: {فَٱقْضِ مَآ أَنتَ قَاضٍ ۖ إِنَّمَا تَقْضِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَآ} So do whatever you want! Your authority only covers the ˹fleeting˺ life of this world. Qur'an 20:72 - I would do it all over again. Everything I did was to save the lives of the Palestinian people being murdered by the jewish occupation. And to stop the British government from using my taxes to arm them. May justice and truth prevail. We fear God only. Free Palestine and Britain from jewish supremacy 🇵🇸🇬🇧 chuffed.org/project/dr-rah…

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@SuppressedNws1 🤔

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Excellent piece on ‘social conservatism’ on the left from the James Connolly Society’s Jim Slaven. open.substack.com/pub/solidarity…

“Remember: it is up to us to look after each other.” Words that apply well beyond #Gaza and beyond even the protest of injustice in general.

Paul Dva #FromThe River2TheSea 💧🌊 @zoolooy

a year ago

Kitty O'Brien, the brave Berlin protester brutalized by Berlin police last week posted this message today on IG Kitty is an inspiration + notes: we are not afraid of the cops, our movement grows stronger ALL EYES ON GAZA! Donate to help Kitty recover here chuffed.org/project/146809…

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Today, over 1000 orphans at the Al-Wafa Orphan Village in Gaza graduated school. They were full of emotion as there were no parents to attend the ceremony because Israel killed them. Thank you the wonderful adults that still take the time during genocide to teach children and make them feel loved.

@OlgaBazova 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@afshinrattansi @GUnderground_TV It’s clear they are all trying to cover their asses- including the press. I hope the British public don’t fall for it.

@MotazSaleh2001 @21WIRE ❤️

“Gaza is an experiment by the mega-rich trying to show all the peoples of the world how to respond to a rebellion of humanity; they plan to bomb us all.” -Colombian President @petrogustavo at The Hague Group Summit

@Soureh_design2 @VanessaBeeley I’m Irish. It took us 800 years. We understand.