It is not coincidental that we have seen Australia, New Zealand, the U.K, and now Canada trigger online ‘age verification’ laws; simultaneous with a political push inside the USA to maintain FISA (702) legislation.
Separating the USA for a moment. The intelligence services of Australia, New Zealand, U.K and Canada make up four of the intelligence services 5-eyes. In essence, the British Commonwealth is the IC commonality. [Yes, there is some validity to the Lyndon LaRouche perspective (Promethean Action PAC)] Additionally, I would also posit a reminder of the international assembly who structured the originating financial sanctions against Russia; again, a commonality.
Focusing on the most recent political creation in Canada, there are three bills currently being rushed through the Canadian House of Parliament, C-34: keep kids safe on social media; C-36: stronger privacy rules, and C-22: modern tools for police.
Not surprisingly, it is difficult to find non-govt-approved information about this legislative construct online.
Canadian media must remain compliant with approved government narratives in order to maintain their business model. However, putting together some various information found on non-controlled information sources, it is possible to begin discussion of the situation.
The two issues that merge with the greatest impact are Bill C-22: The Surveillance Bill, and Bill C-34: The Children’s Safety Bill.
Bill C-22 requires that all information transmission providers, every telecom and internet company, retain metadata on all Canadian users for up to one year. This is electronic metadata which we all know encompasses a lot more than just content.
Signal app, NordVPN, Windscribe, DuckDuckGo, Apple, and Meta have all formally opposed it. Signal app has threatened to leave Canada entirely rather than comply. This is a government mandated metadata storage library on all electronic communication and activity by Canadian users.
Then there’s Bill C-34: The Children’s Safety Bill, as noted by Lucy Hargreaves, a bill that ‘Applies to Everyone’, not just kids. “The government’s social media ban for under-16s is genuinely popular, with 75% of Canadians supporting it in polling. The problem is what it requires in practice. To stop anyone under 16 from creating an account, platforms need to know how old everyone is. There is no way to identify who is under 16 without identifying everyone who isn’t. This means every Canadian adult would need to submit government ID or a face scan to a third-party verification company before posting a photo, using cloud storage, or playing an online game. The bill also creates a new Digital Safety Commission with sweeping powers to set the rules, decide which platforms must comply, and approve or deny exemptions — with almost no criteria written into the law itself.”
“Australia introduced the same social media ban in December 2025. Six months later, the eSafety Commissioner told Parliament she was “not really keen” on it from the start and called it a “blunt force approach” drafted too quickly. 70% of young Australians reported the ban had little effect on their social media use. It didn’t reduce cyberbullying. What it did produce was a surge in VPN use… pushing young people to darker, less-monitored platforms.
The UK implemented age verification under its Online Safety Act in mid-2025. Within one month, VPN downloads hit over two million — the highest ever recorded — and monthly downloads stayed above one million for a year as users raced to bypass the requirement.
The EU considered its own version of mandatory message scanning (dubbed “Chat Control”) and its own Parliament voted it down in March 2026, with the EU’s legal service concluding that indiscriminate scanning of private communications is incompatible with fundamental rights.
The government’s core justification for C-22 is that Canada is the “only Five Eyes country” without a lawful access framework. But the United States has no federal mandatory metadata retention law. The EU’s highest court has struck down blanket retention twice as incompatible with human rights. When the Public Safety Minister claimed Canada’s provisions would be “in line with U.S. counterparts,” he was forced to walk back the statement within hours.” (read more)
Think about what all the critics (correctly) point out as the bigger issue behind the “age id” social media stuff.
What is the unspoken goal of Australia, New Zealand, the U.K and Canada?
Ultimately control. Govt online surveillance, correct? Some form of legal, legislated, govt authorized data surveillance that permits law enforcement to have actionable mechanisms, right?
If that is indeed the goal, then in the USA we overlay FISA (702).
NZ, AU, UK and CA get digital IDs. The USA gets 702. It’s the same basic premise; the same govt motive; the same underpinning reasoning. Just different and nuanced approaches.
Bill C-22 forces tech companies to give the RCMP and CSIS access to your data WITHOUT A WARRANT.
Meta has warned that C-22 would turn their company into “an arm of the government’s SURVEILLANCE APPARATUS.”
Some tech companies have threatened to LEAVE CANADA entirely if this… pic.twitter.com/nVV9sZ0zoi
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) June 17, 2026
Pass the law.
It has to be enforced.
How much will that cost ?
Laws are pt always the solution.
It is impossible to tell people that the very thing they think they want is not what they are led to believe it is.
They have to be shown.
“There are two tragedies in life; one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Attributed to Oscar Wilde…
And the digital prison door creaks ever nearer to slamming shut.
If this keeps up, it will be like the underground in WWII in places like Holland where they had to hide radios from the fascists to access outside news source to find out what was actually happening.
Humanity has always found ways to navigate around tyranny.
Then there are those pesky “unintended consequences”….
“SERENITY NOW”!!! 😉
Actually, it’s INSANITY NOW, whoknowswhat later!
Soooooo does this mean Great Britain can now track its rape gang problem better and actually *DO* something about it?
Or will they still protect the rape gangs and attack the victims?
No.
it means they’ll now target more white people for daring to speak up about the rapes.
Seriously? They’re so sick and twisted they’ll likely use their “police powers” to transmit the location of vulnerable victims to the animal rapists themselves
This must be why “they” allowed Starmer to stay in office?
The increased ability to identify and arrest the opposition is what will allow him to stay in office.
They failed to install these abuses with Covid, but they aren’t going to stop until we are totally subjugated to their tyranny.
The slippery slope keeps getting steeper. Hard to fight against gravity. Is it all inevitable or is there an off ramp???
As wobbly as it is, our Constitution protects us from such laws. 702 is the work around to “comply”, although I would argue it’s also unconstitutional. I wait for a 702 case to make it up to the Supreme Court and then close my eyes at the roll of the dice.
So, to keep people from knowing that their government is slowly taking away all their freedoms as well as selling their countries to the highest bidder or those who like to cut your head off, you just stop them seeing it. Won’t work. They have been trying to saddle the internet ever since its been up and for every one of their moves there will be found a counter move. Count on it.
Anybody want to guess what all those connected AI data centers planned for in the US will be used for?
The servers can be moved out and the buildings can be converted to Soylent Green factories.
The corruptocracy wants complete control.
The 95% of your life they already control isn’t enough.
If SAVE act is so vital, and fisa 702 is so detrimental, why is Pres Trump saying they must be attached for him to sign?
The President wants the Save America Act, they, the DS, want the 702. The President won’t get the Save America ACT any other way, so he compromises.
The beauty of the compromise is if we get the Save America Act we can actually vote new people in that will get rid of the 702.
Hmm…what do those countries have in common? That’s right, they’re part of the British Common Wealth. Move along, nothing to see there.
With friends like this.
But it’s okay to rape children, right?
We, the institutions that are supposed to be “governing you on your behalf,” are in fact afraid of you. We’re terrified of the idea that you would be allowed(!) to “communicate.” We need to be able to record your exact geospational position on earth, every second of every day. We need to be able to record everything that you say, in the “privacy” of your own home, thanks to the cell-phones and even the vacuum cleaners(!) that you have there. We need to stare out of your front window, thanks to your doorbell.