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I don't understand how the age verification thing is spreading so fast. It's all over the world now and I barely heard about it before last year.
Its insane, and the worst part is I don't know what we can even do about it. There is no conversation, all the media basically talks about how great this is to protect kids, there doesn't seem to be any way to push back against this. Why the fuck should we be expected to provide anything to these companies - it's infuriating.
Eh. It just makes it easier to find targets when people finally decide enough is enough.
You can only push people so much before they start pushing back.
There are many powerful interests that want this for a variety of reasons, none of them good. When progress began being made, they all independently see it as building momentum so they try to capitalize on the opportunity. That's why there was a little noise at first, and now they're all suddenly crawling out of the woodwork. I'm sure there's some explicit coordination too, where favors are being exchanged and leverage is being used, since they identified that a rising tide raises all ships, and so the interests will cooperate and make deals as any wins serve them all and contribute the historic momentum.
They want to force this shit through quickly, and give the impression that it's inevitable and well-justified to quell public opposition and awareness.
People feel helpless against it, and there's little oppositional organizing. For being so loud of a move, it's remarkably quiet... Not sure if that's just media and narrative control, or if the world is so fucked that it can't get much traction on the public consciousness right now.
The world is run by a handful of powerful families that are mostly in agreement with each other on how to rule.
https://conspiracyunearthed.substack.com/p/the-13-families-conspiracy-theory
Whenever someone starts talking about this garbage you should imagine half their accusations sound like (((this)))
Also they pretend Asia and Africa don't exist. At least get a more believable number lol, 13 wouldn't even cover the European oligarchy and they're mostly hasbeens
I never said 13 families.
You're cooked.
Sure bro. It's just the exact same rhetoric and lazy yet also laughably myopic thinking.
Well, I don't subscribe to the theory you just posted.