The Great Grok Bikini Scandal is just Digital ID via the Backdoor.
A painfully predictable propaganda pincer movement
Kit Knightly
Two days ago, the British government announced a U-turn on their proposed digital identity, and that the much-anticipated “BritCard” would no longer be mandatory to work in the UK.
This was welcomed as a victory by both fake anti-establishment types whose job is to Pied Piper genuine opposition, and some real resistance who should know better.
The reality is that reports of the death of digital identity have been greatly exaggerated. All they said was that it would no longer be mandatory.
Having a bank account, a cellphone, or an internet connection is not mandatory, but try functioning in this world without them.
As we said on X, anybody who understands governments or human nature knew any digital ID was likely never going to be gun-to-your-head, risking-prison-time mandatory.
All it has to be is a little bit faster and/or a little bit cheaper.
Saving you half an hour when submitting your tax return, faster progress through customs, lower “processing fees” for passport or driver’s license applications.
An hour of extra time and 50 pounds saved per year will do more coercion than barbed wire and billy clubs ever could.
Running alongside this is the manufactured drama around Grok’s generation of images of bikini-clad public figures, something which it suited the press and punditry class to work up into “sexual assault” and “pornography” whilst imploring us all to “think of the children!”
Inside a week, X has changed its policy, and Sir Keir Starmer’s government has promised a swift resolution of the issue using legislation that was (conveniently) passed last year but has yet to be enforced (more on that in the next few days).
This issue became a “problem”, had an hysterical “reaction” and was supplied a ready-made “solution” all inside two weeks. A swifter procession of the Hegelian dialectic would be hard to find.
So, we have the reported demise of mandatory digital identity occurring alongside the rise of the “threat” of AI “deepfakes”.
Nobody in the mainstream press has actually linked these stories together, but the connection is as obvious as the next step is inevitable.
This next step is the UK introducing its own version of the Australian “social media ban” for under-16s. In effect, age-gating all online interaction on major platforms and ending online anonymity.
We called this immediately the story hit the headlines, and it was already being suggested within days. The discourse was achingly predictable:
The roll-out is ongoing; just hours ago it was reported that over 100,000 (totally real) people were “urging” MPs to ban social media for children. Pudgy little PM-in-waiting Wes Streeting is “calling for action”, because his PR guys say it makes him look assertive.
Digital ID was never going to be mandatory…but it turns out you’ll definitely need one to protect the poor little kiddies.
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companies house now requires digital id
it is already here in the background.
the brit card was just the grey squirrel distraction
There is no such thing as “temporary” or “voluntary” for a government.
Government is a sledgehammer. It knows nothing about crochet, jokes, or self-restraint; it only knows how to swing and smash things.
Remember Mao’s CCP “cultural revolution” to destroy own Chinese culture?
That was proto woke, the leveling of the field for globalist robo slaves by bureacratic bulldozers. No Shauns allowed in the sheep masses. Same thing in Europe: no freedom of view or identity. WEF Davos and WEF Tianjin are branches of that same rotten Willow. Unity in Conformity, the Devil’s ideal as much as Anarchy in chaos. No safe niches allowed, anti Natural.
On a related note, Substack and its totally unnecessary ban on Australian users who refuse to undergo “age verification” via facial imaging:
As much as I hate “AI,” it could easily have been used by Substack to ascertain that my account is wholely owned, and its content wholely created, by someone who is clearly over 16 years of age. I’m a veterinarian, and in one of the last articles I posted before losing access, I celebrated 40 years in practice. I can barely see 16 in the rearview mirror.
But instead, Substack denied me all access to its site, including to my own original content, unless I give them high-resolution photos of my face.
Substack uses a third-party vendor, which itself acknowledges using other (what’s that now, fourth party?!) vendors when and as it pleases. The long list of the vendor’s vendors does not inspire trust.
And all to “protect kids”?!
What a great, steaming pile of bovine excrement!
They need you on the internet to get fed lies about the internet being taken from you.
Internet will always be available as that is the number 1 source of the psyop and propaganda.
the British government announced a U-turn on their proposed digital identity,
They did not.
Check out the UK GOV website.
Excuse us. It should have been a O-turn. Corrected.
Frankly, I think all AI is “A painfully predictable propaganda pincer movement.” The pincers are, of course, on the mind itself. I’m really tired of the Deep Fakes that seem to be taking over sites like YouTube. And how many Deep Fakes are now fueling the news we get from traditional sources.
In the 1980s, the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard began to publish many studies on the relations between reality, symbols, and society. He concludes that they age of reality was coming to an end and we were entering the Age of Simulacra — the age of pure symbols that have no referent in reality but are themselves the only first-order reality we have. Baudrillard’s nightmare has come fully true. And it is truly a nightmare.
They used to put porn on the top shelf at the newsagents. Why don’t they just pass a law that all computers must be kept 5’ from the floor and let parents take charge from there? Mobile phones? Ban them all until we have better control of the oligarchs.
Good. Ban it all. No phones. NO MORE SOCIAL MEDIA. Total anonymity and total privacy. Talk to each other – face-to-face. Invite your neighbour for a dinner. Have fun with strangers and forget ‘identity’. And fuck Silicon Valley and their ‘deep state’ agenda. Ban ALL.
London’s Finest
BREAKING: Multiple Iranians INJURED In London – UK Police Crackdown On Anti-IRGC Protesters
Tousi TV
Streamed live 91 minutes ago
So real.
Was Rebel media and Timmy Tommy there.?
I’ve called out fake crap loads of times. Other than perhaps hyping up the shouts and screams a bit, there was nothing fake about the above.
They were all there on the clip board.
No wonder the USian $uiturd$ are fearful and scaremongering:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2026/01/china-is-the-threat-of-a-good-example/#more-164371
I think the refusal to design a functional solution to parental consent/control of media access by their <18 kids is the real problem. Any parent knows they don’t want their kids able to wander into an adult environment they are not prepared to emotionally or intellectually cope with. This is a universal fact for people raising children.
Before the net, the world was limited to access to physical objects and environments: bars, casinos, adult entertainment, publications, etc. Today, the net is a portal to virtual anywhere and there are no limits as long as device access is unlimited. If we go back to physical limits by designing devices that are appropriately limited, we can solve this dilemma without loss of anonymity or implementing the digital ID police state no one wants.
My suggestion is a bifurcated net of public and private nature. The Public Net would be the equivalent of a digitized Library of Congress where the world’s knowledge is made freely available to anyone, completely without private ownership of access. This would be the computer access for those <18 and computers in public places such as Libraries. They would be hardwire device limited. For instance computers, laptops and pads whose cards and card slots, IP, Ethernet are all customized to the public ethernet bandwidth channel only. Wifi and any wireless connectivity is eliminated in these devices because RF is an uncontrollable gateway for commerce profiteering. The computer devices would run all the existing application softwares installed locally. No cloud rentier software apps. Updates can port through the Public Net connection. Standard computers and smart phones are 18> only. Flip phones are <18 for long existing audio use only. All computer and phone devices are only sold in physical stores where a drivers license or similar ID can be the limiting factor if the clerk cannot easily ascertain the age of the customer.
All of the above would take us back to a time of physical limitations where each person and family has common sense and rational control over the conditions of their own lives. We can thus protect ourselves from profiteers constant techno coercing society to conform to their latest techno-bullshit we don’t need. Yes, <18 could not read and write here on OG. But they would also mature themselves on their own, with family and peers, before being bombarded by the greed, selfishness and petty bullshit of unregulated capitalist commerce. Cheating would be as it used to be, severely limited and mysterious. As it should be.
Freedom of access, without digital ID, is a more important issue than children surfing the internet, which is an important issue, just not as important.
However much you may hate the man, anyone who has amassed (not earned) £14m is not an idiot.
The “Online safety act” is taking us to a very, very dark place.
So…Cardi B isn’t an idiot? Glorilla? Lil Baby? Kodak Black? Glorilla has literally said “I’m slow”. Youtube picks and chooses who to give millions to and is owned by Google, which is owned by the government, and has made tons of idiot streamers into millionaires. Many streaming ‘celebrities’ seem to have been elevated precisely for being idiots. By removing album sales and box office revenues as a measure of success and celebrity, and instead subsidizing entertainment (creating celebrities by giving them millions of bot views and then paying them far more lavishly than record deals of the past; keeping Hollywood from going broke after going woke), only the incompetent rise to the top now, by design. In fact, central banks and fiat money are the ultimate anti-Darwin, by bleeding the competent and capable and viable to subsidize the weak and unfit. Most of these billionaires couldn’t come up with a successful business idea in the free market to save their lives.
You obviously are not rich, because you don’t know how stupid you have to be to make 14 million. It’s required, not optional.
So the beef between Elon & Dame Qweir was scripted? Orchestrated? Colour me shocked..
Mr Fawkes – your country needs you.
I once posted a note about Grok while listening to a live Daily Wire show. I said that Grok does nothing but glean the internet and repeat propaganda. Grok cannot discern between truth and lies. It places a higher weight on some information sources over others and the frequency of the posting of the information. Those with higher resources (governments and the UN for, for instance) tend to dominate the information scape. A follow up commenter asked me how I knew that? Said, “I asked grok”. Grok cannot tell a lie, even if he (or she – depending on how much you hate men) is just repeating lies. By the way, the new Grok limits your questions to 20 over a given time frame (a week or something like that). You need to pay if you want to ask more questions within that framework. It does not take long to bottle him up and get him to admit his limitations. At least, it didn’t. Not going to pay. Dropped out of X, partly because of that. The blue check mark is not worth it. So much garbage you have to wade through. One thing it does do, is expose how easily those on the left can lie. I sometimes wonder if they can tell the difference between lies and truth anymore. It is astounding.
Whattabout the unvaccinated? When will they get their jabs??
Just asking a nasty question in my democratic right to free speech in freedom.
Yeah they were pushing the Grok story relentlessly – of course like the Online Safety Act – its not about our protection, but their further grip on control – when Grok first came out it was pretty truthful – but it later had its answering parameters altered, to make it a bit more bias on certain subjects – as for a social media ban on kids, I think Australia has implemented something along those lines – its all about control, in saying that, and by no means am I defending any governments decisions – on kids and social media, kids do spend far too much time on their phones on social media platforms – that lead to behavioural problems – platforms that greatly influence their behaviours.
If you go back 10 mins when this site was promoting Ron De-santis in Florida as different and fighting the deep state.
Old Ronald De-santis stuck it to woke Walt Disney and then the porn’s site.
Digital Id for porn sites, then it was digital id for drivers licence then it was digital Id for seniors and this was 4 years ago.
And guess how many articles freedom loving Off guardian did about this digital id….?
NONE
Your only saying something as your x post thing went viral.
If the MIC media in both arenas did its job, it would know
that, like the masks or QR codes or test and trace, this now puts pressure on business’s to request ID. mask wearing QR codes to function. Switch Covid for digital Id.
They except everyone to have a smart phone to function.
If you want to participate in there world then get digital ID up.
It goes without saying that “illegal immigrants” won’t carry or wear biometric digital ID transponders so… If you don’t want stormtrooping ICE agents manhandling US citizens, it’s the patriotic duty of every “legal” US citizen to “take the tag”…
Not to worry, you won’t have to carry around your proof of citizenship/status on some crazy cell phone app, we have a subdermal crystaline-ferro-lipid nanoparticle injection for you… your proximity to an RF transmitter will trigger a brief low-power RF transmission in the crystaline lipid nanoparticle molecules under your skin securing your immediate identification.
Not really one to grizzle, but my comment was posted over 13 hours and it’s still pending. Thanks.
It happens to us all Gezzah.
You didn’t happen to mention…. THEM?
No, I didn’t George. I did however list quite a few authors whose books I’ve been buying since late 2024 on subjects like transhumanism, geoengineering, technocracy, Agenda 2030, terrain theory, Zionism, the Knight’s Templar, etc. And yes, I remember the “pending” thing the last time I was on here. I posted my comment at 9.00 am this morning and it’s now 10.55 pm on Friday night.
I’d love your comment to get through and see your reading list. I have this great book called Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? by Gabriel Rockhill, all about how Western Marxism was always pro-imperialist because backed by the CIA.
OT but still part of the scam:
It seems that the famed lady Polly Crisis is back. From The Graud:
“We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone”
Our concerned scribe apparently finds “it difficult to be productive”. An odd formulation. You’d think that finding it difficult to live might take priority.
Anyway, she also finds “difficulty conjuring up visions of a better future”. Which leads to a meeting with a therapist who ominously noted that “(m)ost of his clients …have “lost the future”.
He continued “…if our current inability to think about the future is unique, … it seems worse now than in the immediate aftermath of 9/11”. Which means that the demoralisation programme is going according to plan.
And you’ll never guess! The therapist “was one of the last students of famed psychologist Viktor Frankl, a concentration camp survivor”. My, these concentration camp survivors turn up everywhere these days!
I have said this countless times already: This whole ad infinitum discussion is entirely mute from the very start since it’s not the job of the government to protect children
Mute, maybe, but is it deaf?
All the didlers showed up in that scotland yesterday,
Its not priri, believe
but badenoch,
c,mon
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Why should hoomins be penalised because of what a machine produced
— shouldnt the machine’s owner be pilloried instead ?
If only my government could get the un-vaccinated to take their fokking jabs, we would have no more problems on this planet today!
The off-putting phrase that pays in Australia is “calls”
“Calls intensify for x” then it’s “amid” then whatever
Good luck everyone
Even if humans have only been sentient for less than a few generations, (the ‘global’ war of early 1800’s), this is still real, posted here a few months ago here. (not by me).
The Agenda: Their Vision, Your Future – David A. Hughes
Laura Aboli speech given at the ‘Better Way Conference’ – Transhumanism June, 2023 – YouTube
A classy production.
How is it that the Folks involved are allowed to expose the criminals when so many voices of Truth in the past have been silenced, one way or another?
Here is another best film from 2025 for ya,
The Quickening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_WkQrrnRUk
One man, wrote, directed, shot and starring him alone.
Yet another Christian worldview.
Someone should tell him there are hundreds of millions of other deluded believers, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Calathumpians and Mammonists who would disagree with him.
Religion divides. Truth unites.
What film did you (not) watch ?
Idiot.
Your link Cobber.
My mistake, I never watch trailers/spoilers.
Thought people would check it out
‘Truth unites’ ?
In times of serious crisis perhaps, but the truth movement is as divided and distracted as ever, with paranoia and egotism/greed running amok.
Jesus said He didn’t come to unite but to separate the sheep from the goats.
This is not by predestination nor deed, but by faith and love and understanding.
To those indoctrinated with new age/scientism beliefs by the well-circulated ‘truth’ films like Zeitgeist, Thrive et al, Christianity is simplified to ‘that nasty religion that the catholic church used to subjugate people for centuries, and is really built on other myths that pre-date it’.
But the Bible is not just a historical text; it gets to the heart of what it means to be alive, how we should organise society and treat each otherso everyone thrives, and how we make sure our life is worthwhile so that what comes after will be much better.
The gospel is good news, but men are men, and they began perverting its beautiful truth almost as soon as the Bible’s prophecies were concluded in AD 70.
Peace 🙂
Bravo! Fixed and concluded. Nothing to add.
Jesus, whoever or whatever he was or wasn’t, is dead.
As is Mohammed, Buddha and the rest of those good intentioned but misunderstood and exploited teachers. Exploited by a handful of their authority lusting, money hungry followers.
Those teachers all had two significant lessons:
Love and Stillness.
And that, is all we need.
Spiritually alive.
“This is not by predestination nor deed, but by faith and love and understanding.”
Romans 8
“29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”
U r, like most, a gullible, guilty, self-centred, stupid, evil a-hole.
right this is the marketing mantra for many of these neo-totalitarian measures, alongside the constant fear-mongering about lurking predators who must be unmasked, “a little bit faster”, “a little bit cheaper”, in sum, more CONVENIENT
like all those tax breaks for buying electric cars, or otherwise following the imposed script in all lifestyle choices, which are spun as INCENTIVES but are rather effectively tax INCREASES penalizing those black sheep who don’t obediently follow the herd
don’t count out, though, the prospect of a straight-up “risking-prison-time” scenario later on down the road, when the refuseniks have been whittled down by all the nudging and soft coercion to a manageable minority, then the gloves will come off
as recently happened in Holland with the introduction of strict smart meter mandates for all households after a period of transition under an optional regime with favored treatment for early adopters, eventually comprising 90 percent of customers despite low initial, uncoerced uptake
and the promised convenience even before that may prove illusory or quite short-lived, under a bait-and-switch scheme, since the roll-out of systems supporting the new wonderfully efficient technology will undoubtedly be rife with bugs that cause lots of wasted time and headaches, while once people have bought in, those discounts that attracted them in the first place can be safely withdrawn, in the knowledge that opting back out of the technology in protest will by that point be prohibitively difficult
The persistent real problem for selected UK girls unconnected to ID or Internet: Pakistani Grooming Gangs In London: Sikh Community Rescues 16-year old
With Starmer in charge zero change…
Grooming Gangs own barbers?
Raiden Warned About AI Censorship – MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-gGLvg0n-uY
CYBERGEM – Feb 6, 2023
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The script.
“protect the poor little kiddies” : also used in the anti-Israel Gaza campaigns. Modern Goebbels’ are predictable.
You missed one Kit:
A P ainfully P redictable P ropaganda P incer P lot.
The big guns are gonna join the little guns to bring peace to the Middle East:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2026/01/15/us-navy-supercarrier-uss-abraham-lincoln-heading-to-the-middle-east/?ctpv=xlrecirc
Finally, he gets what he deserves:
A secondhand Nobel Peace Prize from a secondhand human being:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-16/donald-trump-meets-marina-machado-venezuela-opposition/106235644
A 0.5% reduction in tariff for a declaration that he is the greatest guy ever.
Coercion by Inconvenience. They say it’s voluntary, then make
the alternative unbearable…
The Myth of the UK’s Axed Mandatory Digital ID Plans…
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-myth-of-the-uks-axed-mandatory-digital-id-plans
Whether it’s ‘Take The Jab’, or ‘Get Digitalised’ it’s achieved by coercion-
by-inconvenience… Why do they even bother with the pretense ?
The so-called social media ban here in Australia is undetectable. It appears to have made zero difference. Claims regarding mandatory digital ID now proven incorrect. The nonsense about fake bikini pics has already been buried as the news cycle moves on. Doesn’t appear that Russia/Ukraine/Iran/Venezuela are merely play-acting their roles in the globalist conspiracy. No more lockdowns and no mass deaths from vaccines.
Off-Guardian batting 000.
C’mon, even without all the ID spying they know exactly who we are, what we say, and what we watch. It’s all recorded somewhere. Anonymity is a myth,
Completely off topic: The ever so kind and caring feedlot cattle barons are concerned for their profits, err I mean cattle, getting too hot.
That is, before they’re slaughtered, sliced and diced in their millions:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-16/75pc-of-feedlot-cattle-now-have-access-to-shade-industry-says/106224914
Phone contacts get backed up for our convenience. Most young people spend hours each day, even at the workplace, publicising personal details, e.g.,
-. history, experiences or achievements
-. relationships including colleagues and acquaintances
-. concerns, fears, embarrassments or infractions
-. ongoing activities, including photos or videos
-. current health or mood.
Tis VAINbook after all.
I won’t do digital identity or AI facial scanning just to access social media platforms or even go on the internet. The age verification restrictions in Australia to “protect minors” seem to be rolling out incrementally. I still have Instagram and Telegram and the only platform that has bought in age verification in Australia is Substack as far as I know. I deleted it when that happened a few days before Christmas. But I also realise my days are numbered on the internet because I will not enable their evil agenda to enslave us. I have been buying quite a lot of books in the last 1.5 years on topics like technocracy, transhumanism, terrain theory, Agenda 2030, geoengineering, etc, with authors like Jacob Nordangard, David A Hughes, Patrick Wood, Elana Freeland, James Corbett, Tom Cowan, Iain Davis, Courteney Turner, etc, because if I can’t access social media, at least I’ll have a library of physical books that are not reliant on me looking at a digital screen. I do what I can not to enable these bastards.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-assault-on-substack-takes-predictable-shape/
“Hamish McKenzie doesn’t look like a Nazi sympathiser to me… what he is is one of the great defenders of free speech”. Here’s my response to that quote: 🤣🤣🤣🤣Because just over 7 months after this was written, Substack in Australia went full on Orwellian censorship by instituting the age verification restrictions and locking people out from accessing content they had already paid for when Substack were under no obligation to do so. Obviously someone put the hard word on them, or maybe they were some honeypot type set up from the start? Regardless, I’m done with them anyway. Thanks for this Johnny.
Q.. What do you think of the influence a small group of Special People have
over Australia’s politics ?
A.. I cant answer that, as i might hurt someone’s feelings, and that can get me
imprisoned for up to five years in Australia…
…….
Q.. What do you think of the genocide being carried out by The Only Democracy
In The ME ?
A.. I cant answer that, as it might hurt the feelings of one of those doing the killing,
which could get me imprisoned for up to five years in Australia…
…….
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/15/australias-hate-free-speech-laws
I think it is horrible how the elephants trample down everything.
Correction: ‘Bill !’
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/15/australias-hate-free-speech-bill
However, you can still trample on the sensitivities of people from other groups with impunity:
https://old.bitchute.com/video/REi16wXlC9cN/
This isn’t about Grok or anything like that, its an article in Al-Jazerra about how social media accounts are being used to shape opinion, in this case about Iran. Its relevant to this article’s subject because it describes politicians responding to ‘the voice of the people’ — calls on Social Media etc. They’re likely to be synthetic!
As for “a bit faster and cheaper”, here in the US we’ve been pushing digital ID for years in the form of “Real ID”, a standardized ‘enhancement’ to driver’s licenses that turns them into a national ID. People have been slow to adopt them still — Americans have a inherent distrust of government anything — so coercion is being used to nudge us a little. The first is a threat to employ enhanced (read ‘intrusive’ or ‘slow’) security screening at airports. This obviously didn’t go down that well so now we’ve now got a $45 “security surcharge” levied against anyone turning up at an airport without a RealID or Passport.
(One the subject of ID in general at the moment we have a problem that people don’t know what ID to carry to prove they’re Americans to ICE. One article today suggested carrying a passport at all times. This probably isn’t much use — ICE uses facial recognition and they’ll bag you if the machine says ‘yes’ regardless of what documentation you carry.)(Strictly speaking they’re not legally allowed to do this but if you stuff a gun in a person’s face and demonstrate your willingness to use it — with guaranteed no consequences — then the fine print of the law is somewhat irrelevant.)
(I forgot the link…..
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/15/network-linked-to-israel-pushes-to-shape-external-iran-protest-narrative )
Isnt “Think of The Children” (ToT C) what pedos do – all the time ?
Reforming drunkards too prefer only little Tot C ?
I live in Australia. I’m almost 81 and a paid subscriber to sub-stack. But substack thinks I’m a danger to the kids, so they won’t let me view any of the authors I like. They have stolen my subscription money and won’t let me log into their membership to cancel it (unless I give them my biometric consent.) Bastards!
I am one of many similarly affected in Australia, but they have not banned all of the Aussie subscribers – maybe just picked out the naughty ones?
Obviously, this is the start of the mandatory I.D. here in Australia just as it is in the U.K.
Our so-called government is presently trying to hurriedly push through legislation on what they call ‘hate’ speech and increase gun control – all as a result of a recent psy-op at a well known beach in Sydney.
Its me again.
“Mandate” from Latin mandare “to order. And related to “main”, French for hand.
I may be wrong, but I think that a mandate in legal terms is merely a recommendation (by some authority), which needs the consent of the “mandatee” to become obligatory.
I think you’re right, but there’s another Latin term that settles the matter:
De facto.
It will not protect Catholics or more broadly Christians (and presumably Hindus, etc.) only one group will be protected by this law if it passes.
https://old.bitchute.com/video/REi16wXlC9cN/
So you can still insult or fear monger against everyone else.
The same happened with me May. Even though I had paid subscriptions to writers on Substack, just before Christmas, they bought in age verification restrictions to access that platform. I went to look at a couple of articles and up popped the Verify Your Age screen instead. I deleted the Substack app but am still getting articles sent to me in my emails from writers I’d already subscribed to. The only problem is if those articles have a podcast or video embedded in them, I can’t even watch the video because it triggers the Verify Your Age screen. Very frustrating and I have been able to delete some writers via my email. I’m also just letting my subscriptions lapse by ensuring there’s not enough money in my account to pay the monthly subscription. Not happy Substack did that.
Sub- STANDARD stack.
Or should that be Sub- Underhanded stack?
Hi Gezz, found I could read my substack articles by opening a new private window (on firefox), but I still can’t make any comments or contact the main substack website to cancel my paid subscriptions. I call that theft!
If I contact my bank to cancel any on-going subscriptions, the author involved gets charged extra fees, so they lose as well through no fault of their own.
Try this site on a private window …. https://thinkingcoalition.substack.com/p/fighting-back-against-substack-censorship
Thanks for this May… will give it a go. The paid subscriptions to writers were coming from my second, minor bank account, and I’ve deliberately left no funds in it so I lose my subscription to those writers. To be honest, after what Substack did, I don’t really want to have anything to do with them anymore. They bent the knee entirely on their own volition when they didn’t even need to. I know quite a lot of Aussies have left that platform due to this. And yes, it’s called theft May.
Yes, it’s unfortunate the author gets penalized but maybe that’s what this problem needs is a mass exodus of substack by authors.
I found I couldn’t access the personal conversation facility on substack without age verification so i just started email correspondence.
How ironic that you can have a substack that rants against this surveillance system whilst the substack application itself is trying to rope you into that very system.
Meanwhile it becomes ever clearer that X is purely controlled especially with the “Iranian Revolution” bullshit which must be the most aggressively unified media assault since covid.
See my post above — it references a news article that unpicks the “Iranian Revolution”, I’d guess because it was so blatant (hubris?) that it was easy to trace the origins of the material to a handful of accounts.
A possible solution may be coming to this conundrum. If enough people delete there substack accounts (let them lapse without paymen) then I can’t see substack surviving very much longer. How to skirt around this is another discussion for alternatives to substack.
Use VPN and log in from the US, for example.
And clear your browser first.
I’d recommend logging in via the US. The UK connector is hopeless. It won’t permit you to access e.g. Wikispooks.
I live in Australia, subscribe exclusively to alt-right/conspiracy peddling accounts on substack and haven’t noticed a thing. Nobody I know has seen any changes since the alleged social media ban was introduced
I can read any post that interests me but i have to re-sub to it first. And though i can read it i cant post comments. It’s like a tv – you can watch but it dont listen.
The proposed “Hate” legislation has the appearance of a union’s ambit claim.
The government is going for the whole hog, and knowing there’ll be resistance,
will jettison the extremer elements to appease the critics, allowing the core to
be passed by parliament… Win-Win ?
But whether any of the catch-all legislation becomes law depends on Australia’s
upper house, the senate, which has buckled under the slightest pressure time
and time again… Expect, though, any hold-outs in the senate against these laws
protecting a Special Minority from criticism, to cop a full broadside of alleged
‘antisemitism’ and smearing, and Heroic Aussie voters cheering on the smears
and eager to put the boot in…
The jigsaw puzzle is coming together nicely.
The End is Nigh
Who was buying all the gold? China, they say..
So BASEL111 states real gold is now an asset to be held on equal terms with cash and A rated bonds. What? paper gold ETF’s held at a fraction of that value. So we are back on a 1to1 gold standard. Watching those Bloomberg pricks, you would think they would have known that!! Insider trading ya bass.
Then we have Tier 1 security, whereby the special ones have protected status. If we experience a crash, then all property of every kind in the world, whether paid off or not, will become the property of major banks on the special list. The laws have been passed, so it’s heads between your legs time.
The fkrs are playing for real, and they want it all.
2026 Year of the Financial Fuckers.
And slightly off topic but OffG also offered an acerbic commentary on the ludicrous allowance for the calling up of up to 65 year olds for re-conscription as detailed here:
-BBC, New rules to make it easier to call up reservists for war
OffG’s lovely take:
Conscription is the ultimate signal that we are their slaves. Think Roman times, gladiators, lions.
‘We who are about to die salute you, Your Majesty.’
Pervasive poverty, covert immigation, under-funding of schools, entrapment in gangs (where the puppet enlists to escape jail), etc. have all been achieving the same thing for a long time.
Yeah, I can see all the early retired Fat Cats lining up to do their duty.
Well behind the frontline battlefields of course.
GENERALS DIE IN BED.