I haven't addressed the sudden imposition of KYC on the internet much. I've been giving it a lot of thought however. The very day the UK put the Online Safety Act into effect, they began targeting UK dissidents posting on non-UK platforms. Clearly requiring KYC isn't about saving children. It's about preventing dissent.
I don't think it's just about that either. Heliowave discusses what may be the real implications of KYC on the internet. Americans should recall that Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and many others, used pseudonyms discussing their political views prior to the American Revolution. Franklin was a printer, which is why he could post pseudonymous communications. Heliowave makes the telling point that government doesn't care about keeping kids away from pr0n because they're exposing them to detailed information on having anal sex with adults, what most people would call perversion, in schools nowadays. Worse, Keir Starmer, whom is today the PM of the UK, was the man in charge of prosecuting sex crimes against children when police and the UK were facilitating mass gang rapes of little British girls, even arresting parents that tried to extract their little girls from the clutches of gangs that were sexually abusing them and pimping them out for profit. The UK is notorious for facilitating child sexual abuse by politicians, and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is about using such abuse as means of control. MI6 is all over it, while we hear only of Mossad and the CIA in connection to Epstein.
So, the UK demonstrates it has no interest in protecting children from content focused on sex, because they've literally participated in pimping them out as prostitutes, and so have American and other governments, in order to blackmail politicians. Keir Starmer has said - and demonstrated - that dissent from the UK's immigration policies will not be tolerated, and as soon as the OSA was in effect, began using it against people dissenting from those policies on X, an American platform.
In the above linked video from Heliowave, he plays a clip of Hillary Clinton saying '...if platforms don't moderate content, we lose total control...'. And that is the issue: total control of humanity. Controlling our speech - which is what KYC internet will do - isn't about what we say. Controlling our speech controls everything we do. Can you rent an apartment without communicating with the landlord? Can you buy chicken, or salt, without the seller communicating to you? Everything we do and everything we have depends on speech, and by totally controlling what we can say, we ourselves are totally controlled.
Crypto is just speech, BTW. It's just data, just like any other speech, and only has any value if it can be communicated. You can't buy or sell any BTC if you can't communicate about it. Note that because KYC enables your overlords to control you specifically, they can specifically prevent you from buying or selling BTC, and not the market in general, or they themselves, from doing so. They can allow you to buy or sell BTC, but only under specific conditions, such as you can only have it for a certain number of days, for a certain purpose, or if you have eaten your bugs like a good citizen. KYC internet converts every crypto into a CBDC, even Monero.
We should strenuously object to requiring ID to use the internet, and absolutely refuse to use biometric ID at all (for myriad reasons, primarily that corporations can't keep their data safe from hackers, and once a hacker has you biometric ID, he has your ID for the rest of your life, because you can't change your biometric information like you can change a password), as well as for internet access, but that will not stop (((them))) from implementing these policies. We must use other means to communicate that we ourselves own, such as Reticulum, and decide ourselves what we are allowed to communicate. If we do not, if we accede and use the KYC internet, we will be slaves. As we have seen, (((they'll))) slowly introduce limitations, and perhaps even positive requirements, like agreeing to not boycott Israel, or to vote, but also sudden changes will be implemented, as the UK has immediately done shutting down dissent to immigration policies the very day the OSA was implemented.
I have said this about crypto for years now. As long as (((they))) own the physical network we communicate on - the internet - crypto depends on (((their))) permission. The whole idea of crypto is that it is permission free - but depending on the internet makes it dependent on permission of the network owners. We've seen debanking used to silence dissent, as it was against the Truckers Freedom Convoy in Canada, and against Nigel Farage in the UK, and many others for a variety of reasons. GoFundMe is notorious for only allowing crowd funding of purposes it is in favor of. VISA and other payment processors have eliminated the ability of Odysee and many other people and users to accept payment in fiat. How long do you think it will be before crypto is used the same way?
Just say no to slavery. The way to do that is to be independent of the goods and services slavers provide. Independence is freedom. Dependence is slavery. Be free.