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Age verification is backdoor mass surveillance.

What happened this month: 🇦🇺 Australia - 70% of banned teens still on social media. Doubled the fine. 🇬🇧 UK - device-level ID at phone setup. Midnight curfew. VPN ban reversed. 🇬🇧UK - Decided that VPN bans don't work 🇬🇧UK - Said no to a mandatory digital ID for now 🇪🇺 EU - Chat Control passed against majority vote. Age verification cracked twice. 🇺🇸 US - KIDS Act passed House 267-117. Supreme Court let Texas age verification stand. 🇨🇦 Canada - three surveillance bills in 30 days. 🇩🇪 Germany - AI behaviour cameras at Kottbusser Tor by October. 🇷🇺 Russia - admitted banning VPNs breaks the internet. Passed another law anyway. 🇮🇳 India - proposed prison for VPN employees who don't comply. 🏛️ Europol - illegal shadow database confirmed. 2 petabytes. A decade. 🏛️ Council of Europe - breached. 297 GB gone. 🏛️ Dutch intelligence - unlawfully accessed bulk data on millions of innocent citizens. 📱 WhatsApp - voluntarily scanned your messages. Law expired April 3. 🔍 Reddit - 269 checks on your face to verify your age. 🚗 EU - infrared camera in every new car watching your face. What is next?

There is no digital sovereignty without ___________.

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Privacy is a right not a setting.

The privacy tool that changed everything for me was ______.

At 17 in the UK you can join the army. You cannot scroll past midnight. The government that trusts you with a rifle does not trust you with an algorithm.

A lot has happened in the past two weeks: UK reversed VPN ban - minority groups use them to call for help. New Zealand reversed VPN ban - same reason. EU court ruled VPNs are neutral tools. Chat Control passed against the majority vote. EU age verification app cracked for the second time. UK announced midnight curfew for under-18s. FCC proposed government ID for every phone in America.

The EU court ruled VPNs are neutral tools Monday. Chat Control passed Tuesday. The right hand and left hand are not speaking.

Social Media Bans Australia's ban has a 70% bypass rate. The UK announced the same ban this week. They have seen the data. They proceeded anyway. What do you think the reason for the bans are if they have proven not to work?

@Awen__crypto Do you have a BTC Pay server plug in?

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You can pay for NymVPN with: ₿ bitcoin:native ⚡ Lightning Network 🔒 monero:native 🔵 litecoin:native 🔵 litecoin:native MW 🛡️ zcash:native ⚡ $Dash 💵 $USDT 💵 $USDC 💵 $BUSD 🟡 ethereum:0x6b175474e89094c44da98b954eedeac495271d0f 💎 $ETH 🟡 $BNB 🔵 $ADA 🔗 $Link 🌙 midnight-3:native 🐕 $SHIB 🟣 $NYM 🏦 Taler (CHF) ✉️ Cash via Post Thanks to zk-nyms we do not know who you are. What payment method should we add?

@design_sats Yes, we can do an updated report. Rough estimates in order of use: Credit Card, XMR, BTC, LTC Dash. This is not complete and might have changed in the last quarter.

@nym Can you share relative stats of what people use?

Age verification and social media bans update: 🇦🇺 Australia - surveillance database. 70% bypass rate. Still doubling fines. 🇲🇾 Malaysia - passport linked to every social media account. 🇺🇸 Texas - app store ID checkpoint. Supreme Court let it stand July 2026. 🇺🇸 North Carolina - voted 106-6 for a bill already ruled unconstitutional. 🇺🇸 30+ states - age verification bills active or passed. 🇺🇸 Federal - KIDS Act passed House 267-117. 🇬🇧 UK - identity checkpoint at phone setup. Midnight curfew. Device-level ID. 🇪🇺 EU - Digital Identity Wallet. Beta version cracked twice. Still deploying to 450 million people. 🇫🇷 France - under-15 ban. Rolling out. 🇨🇦 Canada - three surveillance bills in 30 days. 🇩🇪 Germany - debating. EU law may prevent it anyway. 🇮🇹 Italy - declined at G7. Banning social media won't make you a good parent.

Devenir Invisible: NymVPN introduction and training session tonight in Brussels with our one and only Casey at Le Steki (19:00) as part of "Festival Acéphale de Bruxelles" lesteki.be/events/event/p…

This Week: 🇬🇧The UK reversed its VPN ban. 🇳🇿New Zealand reversed its VPN ban. 🇪🇺The EU's highest court ruled VPNs are neutral tools. Small legal victories ✊Stay vigilant 🛠️Keep building 🛡️Stay private

They banned the printing press. It survived. They banned encryption. It got stronger. They are not winning. They are losing slowly.

Make the internet a space of freedom, not surveillance. Casey Ford, Head of Communications at @nym, will take the Common S3nse stage to explore how metadata surveillance reveals the complicity between authoritarian governments, Big Tech, and data-extractive business models, and why privacy technologies offer a practical alternative. Privacy • Security • DeFi 📍 Amsterdam 📅 September 4-5 (during Cypherpunk Week)