Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

Age-verification laws have pushed more and more users to sites with illegal content. If a site ignores laws around rape, it’s sure as hell not complying with some state level AV law.

These laws are driving traffic to the worst parts of the internet.

If only someone had warned regulators!

From Porn to Sex Trafficking: Lawmakers Want Warning Labels for Adult Businesses - Memphis Flyer These include adult bookstores, movie houses, massage parlors, and adult cabarets.

Politicians say the warning label is backed by studies at the National Institutes of Health. But NIH studies refute the language, saying there's no or little established connection between porn and sexual aggression.

The law is being pushed by Unbound Now, a Texas "anti-trafficking" group.

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Links bellow.

Signal boosting this, it would be of great help if yall passed this around

People in Illinois yell at your reps to oppose this.

New US Congress Bill Proposal Requires All Operating System Providers To Verify Ages Enshrining age verification laws nationwide presents a series of perilous privacy concerns.

All age verification systems are identity verification systems, and identity verification systems are surveillance systems. @fightforthefuture.org @eff.org

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We've decided to go all in on fighting the dangerous online ID check laws in MA & we need help

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This is why I’m such an annoying bitch in saying that it’s not enough for democrats to simply win the next election. Democrats need to step up and completely change trajectory, or else things will continue to get worse, even with the lesser of two evils in power.

Majority Minority Brett Guthrie, Kentucky, Chair Bob Latta, Ohio Morgan Griffith, Virginia Gus Bilirakis, Florida Richard Hudson, North Carolina Buddy Carter, Georgia Gary Palmer, Alabama Neal Dunn, Florida Dan Crenshaw, Texas John Joyce, Pennsylvania Randy Weber, Texas Rick Allen, Georgia Troy Balderson, Ohio Russ Fulcher, Idaho August Pfluger, Texas Diana Harshbarger, Tennessee, Vice Chair[4] Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Iowa Kat Cammack, Florida Jay Obernolte, California John James, Michigan Cliff Bentz, Oregon Erin Houchin, Indiana Russell Fry, South Carolina Laurel Lee, Florida Nick Langworthy, New York Thomas Kean Jr., New Jersey Michael Rulli, Ohio Gabe Evans, Colorado Craig Goldman, Texas Julie Fedorchak, North Dakota Frank Pallone, New Jersey, Ranking Member Diana DeGette, Colorado Jan Schakowsky, Illinois Doris Matsui, California Kathy Castor, Florida Paul Tonko, New York Yvette Clarke, New York Raul Ruiz, California Scott Peters, California Debbie Dingell, Michigan Marc Veasey, Texas Robin Kelly, Illinois Nanette Barragán, California Darren Soto, Florida Kim Schrier, Washington Lori Trahan, Massachusetts Lizzie Fletcher, Texas, Vice Ranking Member[5] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Jake Auchincloss, Massachusetts Troy Carter, Louisiana Rob Menendez, New Jersey Kevin Mullin, California Greg Landsman, Ohio Jennifer McClellan, Virginia

I QRP but also putting this in replies:

Here's some actionable info.

It's in committee, meaning we can kill it before it ever reaches the floor (most bills die in committee and never reach the floor)

These are the current members, if they're your rep, call them.

PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features PlayStation has revealed that players will need to verify their age later this year to continue using communication features.

#savespeech
Gonna get ahead of this article before the worst sensationalists in this movement get it. This IS bad, the article claims this will be implemented globally.

HOWEVER, as far as I can tell, "globally" in this context only refers to regions where it's required.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Re: 'H.R. 8250' "Parents Decide Act". This bill wants to force age verification on the operating system level.

If you see one of your reps listed below, CALL THEM so we can kill this in committee

www.congress.gov/members/find...

Session for the state or country?

#savespeech #notodigitalID

- Refuse to spend money on the company.

- www.parliament.uk/business/lor...
- www.parliament.uk/business/com...

- www.oireachtas.ie

PS5 Age Verification Coming to UK and Ireland, Needed for Messages and Voice Chat Get your phone out

#savespeech #notodigitalID

PS5 Age Verification Coming to UK and Ireland, Needed for Messages and Voice Chat

www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/04...

Do not despair, but do not comply. Much like Apple, I recommend people here:
- Consider other devices for games
- Refuse to comply
- Yell at your reps

The entire AV push is a fucking joke. Call your meps about chatcontrol today btw, they want to force you to face/ID verify just to access ANYTHING online #chatcontrol #privacy #stopcensorship #savespeech #discord

New week, means more calls! Also call your rep to vote against HR 8250!

#savespeech

It’s clumsy and invasive, critics say, about lawmakers’ proposal to restrict social media use by teens - The Boston Globe Proposals from on Beacon Hill aimed at curbing social media use among teens have run into a range of practical, constitutional, and security challenges.

This @bostonglobe.com piece highlighting substantive critiques of Massachusetts' "protect the kids" push for online ID checks is rock solid.

Many experts quoted along with parents and young people who would be directly impacted.

send this to yr MA legislators

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/19/m...

A lot of our big “we’re gonna hold big tech accountable” bills actually hand them + the government unprecedented power to track, censor, and deplatform internet users—and would require us to link our identities to everything we do online, meaning no more privacy. Greatly reducing opposition to them

And the big cultural push around “big tech reform” is the idea that we’re protecting children from the harms of big tech, when we’re actually giving big tech the very power they seek to destroy the world for all children. And that is no longer hyperbolic when Palantir is announcing it via manifesto

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

Good things are still possible, never give up

I don't like "the oppressed became the oppressors" regarding Israel because it misses some crucial information about Israeli policy. Bibi considers Holocaust victims to be weak and Israel's policy was to treat survivors as second class citizens including deporting the ones from Eastern Europe.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

The plot to enslave America. The plot to enslave humanity. They are announcing it because they think we can no longer stop them

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.

These points stand out:

A cool thing about this is that most of the world would probably be required to stop using windows or mac because if I were any other government I would not approve the use of any OS made by an American company even if they claimed to remove this

Translation: they are proposing a bill that says you cannot under any circumstances use a computer for any purpose without allowing the United States government continuous monitoring and a backdoor