0:01 We have some great news for today.
0:03 Digital ID age verification and age
0:05 verification in general just took a huge
0:07 L because a member of parliament in the
0:08 UK just announced that they won.
0:10 Starmer, which is the UK prime minister,
0:12 abandons plans for compulsory digital
0:14 ID. This is a huge win. Well done to
0:15 everyone who's been fighting from all
0:17 political parties and none. A team
0:18 effort. It proves that we can make
0:20 progress when we come together to fight
0:21 this appalling labor government. So, for
0:23 those of you guys unaware, the UK has
0:24 been pushing age verification across the
0:26 entire world and one of their ideas was
0:28 digital ID. They're basically trying to
0:30 make a less invasive form of ID age
0:32 verification. Yes, digital ID is a
0:33 little bit better than handing over a
0:35 physical ID, but it's still crappy in
0:37 the sense that the government wants your
0:38 information to be able to do basic
0:40 things on the internet to be able to use
0:41 social media to be able to listen to
0:43 music on Spotify to be able to do pretty
0:45 much anything. In the UK, you need to
0:47 provide ID age verification. And they
0:48 were even going forward as making
0:50 digital ID verification mandatory for
0:51 pretty much everything. I mean, they
0:53 just want our biometric data for
0:55 literally everything. And for those of
0:56 you guys thinking, and I make this point
0:58 in every single video, oh, it's in the
1:00 UK. It's not going to affect me. It's
1:02 going to affect everybody because every
1:03 country is following suit with this. Age
1:05 verification is spreading rapidly
1:06 throughout the world like a plague. And
1:08 to the point where the United States and
1:09 other countries are also interested in
1:11 digital ID ever since the UK presented
1:13 it. However, Rupert and other members of
1:14 parliament in the UK were able to get
1:16 this scrapped. And they are, at least
1:18 for now, not going to have digital ID in
1:19 the UK anymore. I heard it got pushed
1:22 back to 2029 and it'll be optional when
1:23 it does actually get released. Here's
1:25 Rupert talking about the whole thing and
1:26 explaining some details.
1:29 >> Good news. K Starmmer has just announced
1:32 he's abandoned plans to implement
1:36 digital compulsory digital ID.
1:38 I think this is hugely good news for all
1:41 of us. It shows what can be achieved
1:43 when sensible MPs get together and with
1:47 public support make their views known.
1:51 over or nearly 50 MPs signed uh my open
1:54 letter to Kia Starra on this subject to
1:57 which we were implacably opposed and I
1:59 think we can say this is a victory for
2:02 common sense. It's a victory uh for for
2:05 for all of us. Uh and we can safely say
2:09 now that we retain our freedom. Uh
2:13 another uh slice of it has not passed to
2:16 a an oppressive nanny state. We've got
2:19 three more years to go. Uh and we must
2:22 collectively use this as the template to
2:24 fight the nonsense that's being pedled
2:26 uh uh and and promulgated in this
2:28 country now. So well done everybody.
2:30 Have a large drink to celebrate this evening.
2:30 evening.
2:32 >> So yeah, a few things. Obviously the
2:34 issue with digital ID and ID age
2:35 verification in general, if it wasn't
2:36 already obvious enough, is that they're
2:38 going to be violating our privacy just
2:40 so we can use very basic parts of the
2:41 internet. They want biometric data. They
2:43 want IDs so they can control the masses
2:45 and collect information about everybody.
2:47 And in reality, parents should be doing
2:48 their freaking jobs to make sure their
2:50 kids aren't sitting on social media all
2:51 day. That is the job of a parent. That
2:53 is the job of a guardian. It shouldn't
2:54 be in the government's hands to hold
2:56 your hand to walk you through
2:58 parenthood. To be a parent and to be a
2:59 guardian, you should have the
3:00 responsibility to take care of your
3:01 children. It should not be the
3:03 government's responsibility to force
3:06 everybody to hand over an ID. And there
3:07 was one point that Rer was making that I
3:08 really want to talk about because I
3:10 think this is important. This is also
3:11 something that I've mentioned in other
3:13 videos as well. This should be something
3:15 that we are all aligned regardless of
3:17 our political beliefs. I live in the
3:18 United States. In the United States, we
3:20 are completely divided because
3:22 everybody's worried about this left or
3:24 right liberal or conservative
3:25 When in reality, there are
3:27 times where we should all band together,
3:28 especially when it's something related
3:30 to completely violating the privacy of
3:33 everybody in the freaking world. If we
3:35 all don't band together and fight ID age
3:36 verification, it's going to be a
3:37 situation where we're all going to have
3:39 to hand over an ID to do very basic
3:40 things on the internet, to watch a
3:42 YouTube video, to listen to music on
3:44 Spotify, to read some Twitter posts. I
3:45 mean, like I said, I don't know anything
3:47 about Rupert's political beliefs. We
3:48 could completely disagree on a lot of
3:49 things, but at the end of the day, this
3:51 is more important. It should not be
3:53 about what side you support. It should
3:54 be about everybody collectively trying
3:56 to protect each other's privacy. So, he
3:57 made this tweet over here where he said,
3:59 "A plea to all patriotic MPs. Can we
4:01 please put aside petty party
4:02 political differences and work together
4:04 for the British people? We can win. We
4:06 are winning. We need to win. And he
4:07 makes points about other political
4:09 issues in Britain that I don't want to
4:10 get into because I just don't have
4:11 enough knowledge to talk about it. But
4:13 again, it's just about the freaking ID
4:15 age verification thing. The fact that
4:16 this is such a thing where all these
4:18 parents are just willing to hand over
4:19 all this information to the government.
4:20 Here you go. Here, parent my children
4:22 for me. I'm completely incompetent.
4:24 Here, here's my ID. Here's my kids ID.
4:25 This was the whole situation that was
4:27 really annoying me because it's like,
4:29 holy man. Can we just actually
4:32 agree on one thing as people? Not just
4:33 leftist or rightist or whatever, as
4:35 people. Can we all agree that the
4:36 government shouldn't force us to hand
4:38 over this type of information? I mean,
4:40 it's crazy that people were disagreeing
4:41 with this. This was the letter that was
4:43 signed by all these different types of
4:44 members of parliament where they said,
4:45 "Dear Prime Minister, we are writing to
4:47 register our profound and passionate
4:49 opposition to your reported plans for a
4:51 compulsory UKwide digital identity
4:53 scheme. Such a policy would represent an
4:55 unprecedented level of state control
4:56 over British citizens. This is a
4:58 fundamental change to the relationship
4:59 between the individual and the state.
5:01 It's dangerous, intrusive, and deeply
5:02 unbritish. It risks building the
5:04 foundation of a surveillance state, one
5:06 that will inevitably expand in scope
5:08 over time. This is a slippery slope
5:09 aspect thing that we always keep talking
5:11 about for people who are like, "Oh, it's
5:13 whatever. You just have to provide ID to
5:14 basically, you know, have certain
5:16 features on YouTube or to listen to
5:17 Spotify stuff." And do you think that
5:19 it's going to stop there? Do you think
5:20 it's not going to spread to literally
5:22 every single website as it already has?
5:23 Do you think it's not going to spread to
5:25 your country or your state? If you do,
5:26 you're a fool because that's what's
5:27 happening in the world right now. But
5:29 anyways, continuing on, they said, "We
5:30 urge you to abandon these plans
5:32 immediately. At the very least, you must
5:33 commit to bringing any proposal before
5:35 parliament for full scrutiny and a free
5:37 vote and to fully consulting the public
5:38 before attempting to impose such a
5:40 drastic measure on a reluctant country.
5:42 The British people do not want this and
5:44 the British people do not need this.
5:45 Compulsory digital ID would mark a
5:47 dangerous and permanent shift in the
5:48 balance of power between government and
5:50 government. We will oppose it at every
5:52 stage. Like I said, these people that
5:53 are listed over here, they can have
5:55 vastly different political opinions and
5:57 beliefs. But this is one of those things
5:58 where people should come together and
6:00 try to fight the government from just
6:01 taking away the privacy of all the
6:03 citizens. Not just in the UK, but in the
6:05 world in general. And as I keep
6:07 mentioning the world, it is not just the
6:09 UK. People in the entire world are tired
6:11 of age verification. Age verification
6:12 has been failing everywhere. And people
6:14 are actually trying to get it banned
6:15 from all these different states and
6:16 countries throughout the world as well.
6:18 I've made videos talking about how an
6:19 activist group called Net Choice has
6:21 been permanently blocking a lot of these
6:23 age verification laws across the United
6:24 States. And this is something where it
6:26 just shows that this is not just about
6:28 the UK. People across the world are
6:30 tired of this age verification thing.
6:32 People across the world want the parents
6:33 to be able to just parent their kids and
6:35 not have the government have to do
6:36 everything for us. And the parents who
6:38 do support this type of stuff. They
6:40 don't even understand what's going on.
6:42 They don't understand how wrong this is.
6:43 They're actually just naive or they're
6:45 just straight up dumb. Because if you
6:46 really think handing over your
6:47 children's information to these social
6:48 media companies is going to be the way
6:50 to protect them, you are a fool. Do it
6:52 your job as a parent. Get your ass up
6:53 and just take away the phone from them
6:55 if you feel like they're on the phone
6:56 for too long. It is that simple. It
6:58 should not take the government to make
7:00 laws to mandate ID age verification from
7:02 literally everybody, not just kids, for
7:03 you to be able to do your job as a
7:05 parent. And this is a point that a lot
7:06 of people have brought up with age
7:07 verification, but people bring up age.
7:08 People are like, you know what, the
7:10 people who support age verification,
7:11 they're just old farts that don't think
7:12 anything about technology. But you would
7:14 be surprised, man. Even a lot of young
7:16 people, even people who are literally
7:18 doing social media as a job, they are in
7:20 support of age verification as well. And
7:21 again, I'm just led to believe that
7:22 they're either they're stupid or they're
7:24 naive. I mean, it just comes down to
7:25 that. It might even be something more
7:27 sinister where they know that age
7:28 verification is collecting the
7:29 information of the masses and they don't
7:30 care. I made a tweet about this
7:32 celebrity Madison Beer, who's this big
7:33 musician, and she was talking about the
7:35 fact that she actually supports
7:37 Australia's first social media ban. She
7:38 said, "Really? That's incredible.
7:40 Honestly, I think that's amazing. I'm
7:42 sorry to any under 16year-olds who are
7:43 probably very upset now. that's still so
7:45 young prior to 16. You don't need to be
7:47 on social media. I know that it all
7:48 might be hard if you've been on it. And
7:50 especially as we live in a time where
7:51 every waking millisecond is social
7:53 media, social media, social media. But I
7:54 promise you, you're only going to look
7:56 back and be grateful. At least that's my
7:57 opinion. I wish someone would have taken
7:59 my phone away at that age. But you see,
8:01 Madison, they're not taking your phone
8:03 away at this age. They are mandating
8:05 that you submit ID age verification. The
8:07 phone taking away thing is what the
8:09 people with brains are proposing. We are
8:11 the ones proposing that it should be
8:12 your parents and guardians taking the
8:14 phone away from you to make sure that
8:15 you're not getting addicted to social
8:17 media as a teenager. But what is
8:18 actually happening is the government is
8:20 like, "Hey parents, we got your guys'
8:21 back. You don't know how to be parents,
8:22 we got you. We're going to make it so
8:25 literally everybody has to submit an ID
8:26 to use social media and that's going to
8:28 be quote for the kids." So I made a
8:29 tweet calling her out where I said,
8:31 "It's sad that celebrities are
8:32 supporting invasive laws like this
8:34 without understanding why it's bad. This
8:36 law isn't about protecting kids. It is
8:37 essentially forcing everyone to submit
8:39 ID age verification to use social media.
8:40 This is all about collecting biometric
8:42 data and destroying privacy. I'm going
8:44 to be more optimistic here glass half
8:46 full and assume that Madison Beer isn't
8:48 being malicious with this statement
8:49 because I'm going to assume that she
8:51 doesn't understand that everybody is
8:52 going to have to submit an ID. However,
8:54 there could be the alternative where she
8:56 actually knows what's going on and she
8:57 was paid to say this or something. To be
8:59 honest, you can just never trust
9:00 mainstream celebrities. I mean, in my
9:02 eyes, mainstream celebrities are just
9:04 like they're they're like bot. like I
9:05 don't even really trust anything that
9:06 they say because they all just listen to
9:07 their sponsors or whatever. But it's
9:09 just funny to me that she ends her
9:10 statement by saying, "Oh, I wish
9:11 somebody would have taken my phone away
9:12 from me at that age." Well, you see,
9:14 Madison, that's the problem. They're not
9:15 taking the phone away. They are asking
9:17 you to hand over an ID. But yeah, the
9:19 good news is that digital ID age
9:20 verification in the UK seems to be
9:22 scrapped, at least for now. That is a
9:23 huge win and hopefully other countries
9:25 and states follow suit and stop with all
9:26 this age verification crap. Let me know
9:27 what you guys' thoughts are on the
9:28 situation in the comments. Please leave
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