Hesitation is defeat
It seems that our politicians are paving the way for dictatorship with these mass surveillance initiatives.
A social credit system would be the next step after online ID verification and ChatControl come into effect, and then our generous Lords would sleep more soundly knowing they were safe. Poor things, currently suffering from an insomnia that can only be consequence of the injustices they must be dreaming to commit.
Greetings from Portugal.
And Persona (it’s from the same guy).
I also don’t understand why they’re bothered, a name like that says it all. It’s the same as calling themselves Evil Inc., Satan Corp. or something.
There’s no law anymore. These people have already gotten away with things much worse.
And most jobs are manual labour. That guy wants to seem like he’s making an intelligent prediction about a supposed new paradigm shift for Humanity, but ends up just stating the status quo since a job is a job.
Basically, Epstein was the manager of Putin’s wealth.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 10/EFTA01683874.pdf
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/informant-told-fbi-that-jeffrey-epstein-had-a-personal-hacker/
Epstein had some connection to REDACTED from MIT Media Lab and I think that’s Joi Ito.
Epstein tried repeatedly to set up a meeting to sell Putin on the idea of bitcoin in 2014.
That particular meeting fell apart, because Epstein realized it would look terrible to visit Putin so soon after the shootdown of MH17. But I wouldn’t be shocked if they did successfully meet sometime later.
Some people have joked that the only practical use case for bitcoin is to make financial crimes much easier. But what if that’s not a bug, but a feature? Perhaps the whole objective of bitcoin’s invention was to make financial crimes easier for Putin and the Russian mob.
Ito introduced Epstein to Jeremy Rubin (core bitcoin dev), which turned into Epstein directly funding Rubin. Search for “Jeremy Rubin” in the files and you’ll find checks to him, docs about the formation of “Deploy Capital LLC”, potentially backed with Peter Thiel who was trying to invest in Level One and Bitmain. Iozzo was involved in that stuff too: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01005773.pdf
So if that’s all true, is bitcoin just a bunch of Putin’s money? Nothing here is conclusive, but it isn’t so far fetched anymore, either.
But suddenly, this bizzare email exchange makes some sense. Epstein and Ito were panicking about the feds tracking down Putin’s wealth, because they knew following the money would lead right back to them.
Also, now we might know where Epstein got his mystery billions! Because they weren’t his billions, they were Putin’s.
Bitcoin was probably created for Putin to hide his money. There’s suspicious stuff about it in the Epstein files.
Hear me out, Trump is the Antichrist!
They should ban toilet paper, it’s too woke.
LoL
Our corrupt EU overlords have sold themselves to all those American corporations. ChatControl is just another example of that. Fuck them.
Orban’s Hungary is in favour, after all.
We are embracing authoritarianism everywhere. Democracies are dying.
Politicians are not ignorant of the risks; as the article mentions, they had several advisors, including scientists, who warned of the danger. If our leaders didn’t know it, they wouldn’t exclude themselves from the proposal.
Bannon’s strategy: flood the zone with shit and steal as much as you can from the common people; even their rights and liberties.
Of course, just listen to the CEO of Palantir, he already admitted that that’s his goal. By inference, we can extrapolate that this is the goal of all major business leaders of these companies who are developing AI systems. They need more data to compete with China, and if that requires the West to have authoritarian mass surveillance systems, so be it.
The fact that these guys even proposed (and more than once) something that so profoundly violates the fundamental right to privacy of European citizens is cause for great alarm.
OP’s post seems like propaganda to me and of the lazy kind.
Let’s see if things actually unfold as promised or if it’s just talk.
Behold the most expensive money burner!
Thiel shared his views on the Ten Commandments and identified which ones he believes are the most significant.
“The Ten Commandments, the two most important are the first and last on the list. The first commandment is, you should worship God,” Thiel reportedly told attendees. “The tenth commandment is, you should not covet the things that belong to your neighbor. In some ways, the first commandment is to look up, and the tenth commandment is you do not look around. And if you’re too much focused horizontally on all the people around you, that’s sort of the bad version you get caught up in.”
He’s such a hypocrite!
The greedy guy who owns a company that offers mass surveillance systems says that not looking around at your neighbors is one of the best virtues. LoL
The guy urgently needs to see a psychiatrist and a psychologist.
The narcissism is rotting your brain away, Pete!
With something like a physical gift card.
Go to a store or kiosk, show them your ID card or driver’s license, and they’ll give you a card randomly chosen from the shelf with a code to activate the +18 version of any social network of your choice.
Each code could only be used once. People would have to buy more, at a symbolic cost, for each social network they wished to activate.
I would tend to be against this in the same way, but at least it would be something I could understand where the objective is actually what is being presented (protecting the children), albeit misguided, because to me it is clear that what is currently being promoted and proposed has nothing to do with age verification, but rather with mass surveillance, marketing and censorship.