We take research approach with how we cover things. The recent xenophobic attacks in south Africa has resulted in increase calls for biometric survialance on borders and We suspect soon the interior. (1/3)🧵 ...

Twitter/X continues to degrade in terms of campaigning options. Glad we use it manly as a platform to just to monitor and communicate with Mps,the continued feature locking,bots,hostile users makes it a secondary priority while unfortunately being the primary place statements and gov coms are made

📝Updating the call list and creating image grabs for easy shares. 📝looking to create an update page (maybe the substack or secondary platform that wont be age gated)so that can be bookmarked and used a primary landing spot for those that don't want to be on socials. 📝video assets are mostly done.

One of the pain points of privacy advocacy in south Africa is the the fact you cannot just start at the Policy. Privacy discussion on a mainstream level is so bare and non existent one needs to B: -Provide context -Set definitions -Then outline Policy -Sprinkle in international examples 1/4

Yes to all of this.

Funny how all the "faults" happen to align with what the AVP's members provide as a service. Rent seeking is correct. They wax poetic about how children are being made safe...but saftey on their terms. Apple should not be doing this either,all of them are bad. Just one is throwing a tantrum.

EU is talking banning VPNs "Some argue" I hate this cowardly double speak where a unquoted quite minority presented as quite majority cannot have their positions argued. As opposition to Age verification our sources are known, are stances are made. what does "some people" stand on?

This just turns companies are into infrastructure,making it harder to leave their eco-system as they continue hostile user/business practice's. It goes from leave apple To leave apple and have to reverify on a platform you may not trust. Staying out of need and not choice. Legislation capture.

🚨🚨Policy relating to South Africa's draft Digital ID paper 🆔Amendments to Identity regulation and outline of operation,biometric capture for digital identity 0 coverage Name:54610 4-5 Home Affairs Published:4 May 2026 Submit comment by:6 June 2026 Comment📄 www.gpwonline.co.za/government-g...

Pretty solid advice For online messaging shorts/bite sized explainers on a issue helps get the word around. If short on time or struggle making resources, share articles, posts threads, vidoes(lots explaining AV) Above all stay on message "We should not do this" "It won't protect children"

IIRC Parliament voted no three times on this and now Olivia Bailey is saying that no matter what the consultation finds they will impose some form of restrictions for people who don’t want to agree to ID verification. They’re not even pretending they give a shit anymore. It’s just open contempt.

That's not how the internet works. That's not how borders work. It also fails to account for changing government priorities, asking for papers for everything on the net could result smaller upstarts just not using the countries doing this. This gives incumbents who have the money a monopoly.

Problem with this is the lack of legislation restrictions,everytime the identify verification scheme does not work the government increases enforcement efforts. What went from only block 18+ stuff is know block anything till you verify. The hammer will keep bashing even if it breaks everything.

Age verification laws are based in magical thinking. Full stop. All legal considerations, privacy, and human rights concerns aside, there is simply no safe, reliable or practical way for social media companies to verify the age of every single user. Full stop. www.politico.eu/article/age-...

Sony will require age checks in the UK to access PlayStation communication features www.playstation.com/en-gb/suppor... It's important to protect the youth from inappropriate content or talking among themselves Why not comply in advance? #ageverification #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #gaming

🇿🇦Update on the state of AGE VERIFICATION and how it effects south Africa. Will be making a substack version,but here is the reddit for know. Discussions on -Current attitudes -What we are aiming for -Goals of discussion www.reddit.com/r/NoToAgeVer...

imagine in the pre digital era that your cumbersome 300 pound CRT had a little scanner device on it, that it stopped and demanded the ID of every resident of the household before HBO or Adult Swim came on. that is how dumb all this shit is

TLDR parental control tools are being moved from individuals to the state. You can't have requests for ID/passport or reference a Digital Wallet and try and cram anonymity at the end After multiple failed rounds to pass chat control, users rightfully should be suspicious bsky.app/profile/nove...

EU is launching thier own age verification app. So let's clear up the lies - privacy preserving is a lie if access is granted at the cost is to submit ID/passport documents - No it's not like at a bar, this effects access to speech, resources, vidoes on sensitive topics. youtu.be/uryHjVMfZGg?...

Further placement of Digital ID in the draft paper on immigration. The trouble is 0 media coverage/ or even small discussion on the new Biometric requirement that make Giving up biometrics and having a Digital ID mandatory to live in South Africa www.gov.za/sites/defaul...

73% of sex educators are concerned that age-verification laws will impact their work, practice, or resources, according to preliminary results from our national survey of sex educators and other sexual health professionals released today.

"Despite promises that age-verification laws would simply prevent minors from accessing adult sites, a majority of sexual health professionals say the laws are threatening sex education and other resources." www.woodhullfoundation.org/press-releas...

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This will hurt us particularly South African🇿🇦small sites and online sme and digital information distribution,no doubt this will be used in south Africas audio&audio visual white paper for age verification and the podcast regulation We need to fight noageverifiactionsa.substack.com/p/list-of-co...

Podcast regulation discussion in South Africa. Roundtable discussion #southafrica #privacy #meta #Youtube #ageverification www.youtube.com/live/VI_DWQ-...

🇿🇦 Consensus is building against these systems and this policy,dont wait to be another example of failure send your message today. Stop age verification today📴🚫 This is not protection Call and say no to Age verification in south Africa 📞📨 noageverifiactionsa.substack.com/p/list-of-co...

Trump's FTC Chair posts that people opposing age-verification surveillance are just shills being "being paid by people who want to prey on your kids." The lengths this administration goes to delegitimize dissent is staggering.

🇿🇦 Consensus is building against these systems and this policy,dont wait to be another example of failure send your message today. Stop age verification today📴🚫 This is not protection Call and say no to Age verification in south Africa 📞📨 noageverifiactionsa.substack.com/p/list-of-co...

Discord delays age-verification roll out after backlash, releases new policy saying it will NOT partner with any vendor that doesn't perform the verification entirely "on device" — meaning biometrics are not shared. 👏👏👏 Persona, which did not meet that standard, has been dumped.

"no see it's okay 90% of people won't have to verify their IDs on discord, we already track you so much that it's a moot point unless you turn off analytics like some kind of PRIVACY FREAK"

Please don't give your trust back to Discord because they say they're slowing down Keep looking for and building alternatives

Don't stay leave Don't concede your privacy Instead of only having a week to leave,plan a better gradual exodus. The push back each time diminishes. You have time know to think through were you go to.

Discord has announced that it's cutting ties with Persona, the AI software company backed by Peter Thiel used for age and identity verification.

Discord has ended its partnership with Persona following community pushback, according to Fortune.

And that's why we say NO to #AgeVerification 👉 Check the status in your country & whether you need to contact your lawmakers: tuta.com/blog/age-ver...

🇿🇦 This is not like id'ing offline, this is not like showing ID for liquor this is a drag net of massive information collection Stop age verification today📴🚫 This is not protection Call and say no to Age verification in south Africa 📞📨 noageverifiactionsa.substack.com/p/list-of-co...

Currently the "Fight big tech"is framing similar to Big tabacco. Problem SOCIAL MEDIA/PHONES IS A COMMUNICATION TOOL Unlike alcohol/cigarettes when SM/PHONEs is removed one is 🚫denied access to community 🚫removed from public partcipation 🚫 being part of spaces you is not provided physically

Some under-16s may be reliant on the internet for vital information on health or other personal safety issues that their parents or family can’t or won’t tell them

We are locking Youth out of : 🌍making friends in regions beyond their own. 🌍 getting opportunities not with physical distance. 🌍Follow news on interests not covered by mainstream media. 🌍Be part of fandoms. The playbook is the same,the offline world was my childhood and so should yours.

The UK already has one of the most restrictive internet policies in the west. Starmer seeking broad, extra-parliamentary powers to crack down on VPNs and other access is a troubling sign. Censorship is always fuels an appetite for more censorship.

SONA(state of the nation address) has a lot of hand waving were it comes to AI integration and appeals to technology. Seeing how outlined goals will effect campaigns.Still no strong privacy discussion in South Africa and it does not look that that is changing this year Stretched,but still fighting

🇿🇦 Current user filters/ parental controls already archive all goals of Segregate and suppress laws/age verification method's without compromising user agency or Privacy. This is not protection Call and say no to Age verification in south Africa 📞📨 noageverifiactionsa.substack.com/p/list-of-co...

🚨🚨Discord is planning on age verification next month global,despite south Africa not having the framework that permits this,even local groups rushing for Australias teen ban could not get this,this is intrusion on south Africas sovereignty x.com/discord_supp...

Stuff is pretty much done and just needs a roll out. -banners -infographics -frequent misinformation debunking. We are just forming a roll out strategy and seeing how it aligns with other campaigns and other projects. Left: - fit for purpose videos -Website(long term project) Keep you posted.

Received Term schedule for Digital communications committee,reaching out to home affair's for their schedule. Lots of committee presentations in March,trying to get a frame work for the Digital ID and possible date for age verification on the latest white paper. Will keep you updated.

✍️Making progress on templates, we are just split between this and the draft emigration reforms bill that was just extended(outlining our problems with it's data harvesting requests). Thinking or rolling things out in drips and updating as needed so people can start running with what we have.