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The Real Reason Behind Online Age Verification Laws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZTeEN2HT0

What does online age verification laws actually have to do with the ENABLING of collecting data from children, China's surveillance and censorship laws, and the profits of companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google? A lot more than you think.

In this episode of Plain Meaning, I break down the real agenda behind the push for operating system age verification. From California's Digital Age Assurance Act to federal proposals in Congress, they have come from the same source. I trace who benefits, what laws get quietly gutted in the process, and why the timing lines up suspiciously with China's own digital surveillance rollout.

What you'll learn:
— Why Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta all win if these laws pass
— How age verification effectively nullifies existing laws that protect you and your children like COPPA and the Privacy Act of 1974
— What already happened in the UK under the Online Safety Act — and why it matters for America
— The striking parallels between Apple's product rollouts and China's surveillance
— Why this isn't about protecting kids at all but more about removing the remaining barriers SO THEY CAN TRACK THEM

This is Part 1 of the Plain Meaning 12-part Plain Meaning Special Report. Links to all episodes will appear as they're released.

The Real Reason Behind Online Age Verification Laws
The rest are coming soon...

California's law takes effect January 2027. There is still time — but not much.

#AgeVerification #DigitalPrivacy #OnlineSafety #COPPA #BigTech #ChildOnlineSafety #Surveillance #Apple #Google #Meta #Facebook #DigitalID #PlainMeaning #PrivacyRights #ChinaTech #InternetFreedom #DataPrivacy #OperatingSystem #TechPolicy #ParentsRights #China #PrivacyAct

#AgeVerification #DigitalPrivacy #OnlineSafety

#AgeVerification #NationalID #Surveillance #Censorship #PlainMeaning

Trump’s education secretary claims schools are secretly transitioning children. They aren’t

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/linda-mcmahon-secret-school-transitions

Brazilian Couple Sentenced to 50 Days in Jail for Homeschooling Without Gender Ideology

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/brazilian-couple-sentenced-to-prison-for-homeschooling-without-gender-ideology/

Most older Indians don't know they can take their own children to a tribunal for neglect.
Most families don't know maintaining their parents is a legal obligation, not a choice.
The Maintenance Act 2007 exists. Very few people know what's in it.

https://medium.com/@sivaprasadbose/senior-citizen-abuse-in-india-what-the-law-actually-says-c6070bad023a

#SeniorCitizens #ElderAbuse #IndianLaw #KnowYourRights #MaintenanceAct #ElderCare #SeniorCitizenRights #FamilyLawIndia #LegalAwareness #IndiaLaw #SocialJustice #OlderAdults #LegalRights #ParentsRights #IndiaAgeing

Supreme Court passes on case over outing trans students

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/supreme-court-lgbtq-kids

Supreme Court passes on case over outing trans students

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/supreme-court-lgbtq-kids

Poland’s Schools Are Being Recast To Produce Modern-Day Pavlik Morozovs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/analysis/polands-schools-are-being-recast-to-produce-modern-day-pavlik-morozovs/

Texas teachers are being forced to deadname transgender students under a new state law

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-teachers-deadname-transgender-students

This is UNBELIEVABLE‼️ Ending vaccine mandates in Florida will lower immunization rates and significantly increase the risk of outbreaks of preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, chickenpox and whooping cough‼️ #ParentsRights 🙄

This is UNBELIEVABLE‼️ Ending vaccine mandates in Florida will lower immunization rates and significantly increase the risk of outbreaks of preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, chickenpox and whooping cough‼️ #ParentsRights 🙄

This is a horrific invasion of #privacy & public pillorying of minors!

#Trump admin demand for #trans care info sought addresses, doctors’ notes, texts

#Legal experts said the #DOJ’s #subpoenas related to #MedicalCare for #transgender patients younger than 19 appear to be unprecedented.

#law #AbuseOfPower #heterosexism #hate #bigotry #LGBTQ #TransRights #CivilRights #HumanRights #ParentsRights #Medicine #Doctors #intimidation #GovernmentOverreach

#GiftArticle: https://wapo.st/4lAnkRy

Every time a parent opts a student out from an activity or curriculum, this should appear on the student’s permanent transcript. #optout #parentsrights

6-3, our captured #SCOTUS Kangaroo Kourt has enabled #states to #discriminate against us. In a twisted overreach: they argue for #ParentsRights, then insist the state knows how to care for your child better than you. #Women can get gender affirming #surgery (boob jobs, eyeliner tattoos), #men can get #gender affirming surgery (hair job, jawline redo), but not #LGBTQ. #Conservatives attack the most vulnerable among us for #political gain.
#fascist #USA #NoKings #OurPutin https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/politics/supreme-court-upholds-tennessees-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth

Dr. Remington Nevin, St. Clair County’s Medical Director, joins Eileen with key updates from the Health Board:

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parents’ rights & vaccines
☀️ Solar farms & local regulations

What’s being decided could impact your backyard.
https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/shows/eileen-tesch-living-exponentially/update-on-solar-facilities-dr-remington-nevin/
#StClairCounty #HealthFreedom #ParentsRights #LocalControl #GBSMedia #CommunityMatters

The Delhi government has approved a new bill to regulate fee hikes in 1,677 private and aided schools.
#DelhiNews #SchoolFees #EducationReform #DelhiEducation #ParentsRights #SchoolFeeBill2025 #RekhaGupta #AshishSood #EducationForAll

https://todaynewsheadlines.com/delhi-bill-to-regulate-school-fee-hikes-in-1677-schools/

Last night at a Korora concert in #yeg, I heard this wonderful text sung beautifully by the treble voices choir ChandraTala.
The song is called “On Children” from Ysaye Barnwell… the world needs a lot more of this kind of thinking right now…

“Your children are not your children
[…] though they are with you
They belong not to you.”

#ChildrensRights NOT #ParentsRights
#ParentsRightsDontExist

#Voters send Powerful #Message to #AntiTrans, #MomsforLiberty-aligned #Candidates

In multiple states, voters rejected “#parentsrights” #fearmongering, including #MarkRobinson, the #antitrans #Republican #candidate for #NorthCarolina #governor, and other #state #education posts.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://glaad.org/voters-send-powerful-message-to-anti-trans-moms-for-liberty-aligned-candidates/

'love and respect demand that every human child be treated not as “the property of parenting adults to do with as they wish” but as their own person with their own rights. “When we love children,” hooks reminds us, “we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights—that we respect and uphold their rights.” '

#Parenting #ParentsRights #ChildrensRights #Adultism #Childism

#ChildrensRights > #ParentsRights
#KidsFirst.

Sincerely, from a childless woman who supports & advocates for the rights of all #children.

Parental Rights: A role-based approach
Hannan & Vernon, 2008, Theory and Research in Education

"If the parental role is justified by the prevention of irreversible damage to future choice, then it cannot, without self-contradiction, include the authority to control future choice in irreversible ways."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1477878508091110?casa_token=_MMOcw06Yd4AAAAA:8YB8xYh1BE38xlyloFecw_1Ppun8cV5VywmizPziLRu0HWzprwHHmKiZr0KcDfgojY69fXcCZaE

#ParentsRights #ChildrensRights #LGBTQIA #Intersex #Philosophy

If you know any parent's rights activists in Ontario, you should consider exercising your rights under the Children's Law Reform Act to apply to extinguish their parent's rights. Under that Act, anyone can apply for a court order to end another person's decision-making responsibility, which according to past court cases, ends rights which a person has by virtue of being ones parent https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2016/2016onsc809/2016onsc809.html.

#onpoli #parentsrights

Judging Parents
Greene, R. W., & Hicks, D. (2018). In Judgment Calls (pp. 196-219).

"Put simply parental rights advocates are working to place the parent-child relationship outside of public deliberation and regulation."

https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:L2VCl_gJ9dkJ:scholar.google.com/

#ParentsRights #heteroactivism #Autonomy #ChildrensRights #Adultism

DYK that in 1996 14 PC MPPs with the Liberals and NDP managed to keep parents right's out of health care. This includes Julia Munro who was Mike Harris's PA, Janet Ecker and Jim Flaherty.

#onpoli #cdnpoli #childrensrights #onhealth #history #parentsrights

#SPLC #labels #NewJersey #parentsrights #groups as '#antigovernment'

The #extremism #tracking #nonprofit named the #NewJerseyProject, New Jersey #Parents Involved in #Education, as well as six #county #chapters of #MomsforLiberty among its list of #extremist and #antigovernment #groups in the Garden State.

https://www.app.com/story/news/education/2024/06/10/nj-parents-rights-extremists-splc-hate/74015384007/

I get a little frustrated when people act like the Pacific Northwest is perfect for trans folk, like we didn’t pass a #ParentsRights bill this year in Washington.

Yes, it’s better to be trans here than many other places, but we can’t afford to be complacent. We must continually battle the forces of oppression. We gotta tread to keep our heads above the waterline.

The hidden agenda behind the so-called Parents' Rights push
How parents' rights is a tool for Christian nationalism
By Andra Watkins (2023)

"My ignorance was the prerogative of my parents' right to control what I learned about my body."

https://www.salon.com/2023/06/08/the-hidden-agenda-behind-the-so-called-parents-rights-push/

#ParentsRights #BodilyAutonomy #GenitalAutonomy #Religion

You could say that the parents rights ideology has a preoccupation with the orgasmic pleasure of children. Heterosexuality is a hell of a drug.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-spreads-bizarre-message-about-10-year-old-girls-future-orgasms/

#transphobia #heteroactivism #parentsRights

Bill would require Utah teachers be politically ‘neutral’ in what they say and display in class
Katie McKellar, Utah News Dispatch

From the article: "His goal is to “reassure parents""

Nothing to do with the interests of children, and everything to do with the interests of parents.

https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/02/12/utah-bill-requires-teachers-be-politically-neutral/

#WarOnChildren #UTPol #ParentsRights #ChildrensRights #Education

#StephenMiller's #odious #legal #foundation takes aim at #transgender #kids in #Arizona

The guy who thought it was a good idea to forcibly #remove #children from their #parents at the #border is now #pretending he #cares about #ParentsRights—and so he’s #harassing #transgender #kids

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/26/2207458/-Stephen-Miller-s-odious-legal-foundation-takes-aim-at-Arizona-transgender-kids

Does Saskatchewan's Parents' Bill of Rights help parents or misguide them?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/parents-bill-of-rights-saskatchewan-law-help-or-confuse-1.7037210

#Saskatchewan #AntiTrans #ParentsRights

What "Parents' Rights" REALLY Means

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNOmFBw1I_M
#parentsrights #protectchildren #rightwing #kids #education #2023election

“Parents’ Rights” Rhetoric Is Rooted in Radical Conspiracy Theories
by Michelle Cyca for The Walrus

https://thewalrus.ca/parents-rights-conspiracy-theories/

#Heteroactivism #QAnon #ParentsRights #Conspiracy #Epistemology #Ideology #Patriarchy

Throughout the history of the United States, we've lept forward in development every time we deem a subset of people, once thought of and treated as property, worthy of the rights held by those thought of as full citizens. Emancipation, Suffrage, and Civil Rights for all were won through not only conflict and persistence, but also by a re-framing of the the issue at hand. Presently, we are at another one of these crossroads to prove ourselves.

Conservatives of the past and present have and continue to attempt to whitewash the South's reason for starting the US Civil War, saying it was about "states rights." But upon closer analysis, it's clear that it about the rights of states to determine the legality of slavery, of ownership of another human being. In the same way, conservatives of today raise a stink about "parents' rights" over their children. As soon as they're born, children are nothing more than property to these people, with a will to be broken and molded to whatever they desire. Parents and society have a responsibility to protect and raise their children, and both of them have a lot of power over children due to their lack of understanding and development. But we all know that "with great power, comes great responsibility." Children have rights; parents have responsibilities.

#ParentalRights #ParentsRights #ChildrensRights #WarOnChildren

“I Own My Children”: The Parental Rights Movement and How to Challenge It
by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network

https://www.antihate.ca/_i_own_my_children_the_parental_rights_movement_and_how_to_challenge_it

"These are the tools you need to understand where the "parental rights" movement comes from, what its goals are, and what you can do to challenge it."

#LGBTQIA #ParentalRights #ParentsRights #Transphobia #ChildrensRights #WarOnChildren

I think some heteros have kids purely so they can be lord and master over another human being 😬

#ParentsRights

#ParentsRights: "Come for the Transphobia, stay for the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories"