Where Is Your Line In The Sand On Digital ID?

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Where Is Your Line In The Sand On Digital ID?

The implementation of digital ID programs presents a set of unique challenges that each individual will have to navigate to determine whether or not they will preserve their liberty or submit to the agendas of technocracy.

by Don Via, Jr. – via thefreethoughtproject.com

Mandatory digital ID is almost here. For years The Free Thought Project and various other independent media outlets; including but not limited to some of our colleagues such as The Conscious Resistance Network, The Last American Vagabond, James Corbett, Jason Bermas, Josh Sigurdson of World Alternative Media, Whitney Webb’s Unlimited Hangout and many more have sounded the alarm on the encroaching dangers of digital ID.

From exposing the technocratic agenda of the scamdemic era attempting to assert digital identity as a “human right” in an effort to snare much of society into a mass surveillance grid.

To the United Nations push to implement digital identity as a part of their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 16) amid attempts to consolidate power for global governance.

And the latest attempts of the Trump administration exploiting concerns of election security as a means of ushering in digital ID domestically.

It is clear that efforts to implement this dystopian technocratic agenda are moving forward with full speed.

Earlier this year, California joined a growing list of over a dozen states offering digital drivers licenses through digital wallets such as Apple and Google.

Just recently, the popular children’s gaming platform Roblox rolled out a new mandatory facial recognition system to verify the ages of its over 36 million users.

Meanwhile, the state of Alaska recently began advancing plans of enhancing its own digital identity biometric data collection system.

In recent years one of the primary methods in which politicians have attempted to enact digital ID or similar measures has been through exploiting concerns of child safety online, thereby pushing for a series of free speech infringing, censorship inducing, age verification laws utilizing artificial intelligence and facial recognition biometrics among other things to implement such agendas.

At the same time these initiatives are sweeping their way through the country, there are currently nearly two dozen pieces of legislation individually moving their way through Congress with each one seeking to serve as the next attempt to further entrap the American people in this surveillance panopticon.

A myriad of these legislative pieces set for consideration by the House subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade include yet another attempt to resurrect the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act (H.R. 1623), App Store Accountability Act (H.R. 3149), Reducing Exploitative Social Media Exposure for Teens (RESET) Act, and various others targeting messaging, gaming, social media, and more all in an attempt to establish online age verification and personal data collection in line with the digital ID agenda.

The dangers of digital ID and its role in establishing the foundation for the all-encompassing surveillance-censorship control grid of the technocratic agenda cannot be understated.

As these agendas continue to become more pervasive they will inevitably become harder and harder to avoid for the average person. The strategies to implement them will be equal parts forceful and convenient, such as restricting travel or otherwise making it more difficult for those refusing to comply with digital ID, or by streamlining processes such as payments or access to personal accounts and information through a digital identification program that makes utilizing such services “easier”.

The essence of digital ID implementation comes down to the age-old conundrum of trading freedom for security, or more aptly the faux choice of exchanging one’s liberty for a false sense of security.

Ultimately everyone, no matter how detached from politics they attempt to be, is going to be faced with the question as to whether or not they preserve their individual liberty or submit to the dystopia of technocracy. Sadly many will likely fall in line with the agenda forced upon them out of apathy or ignorance, either being unaware of the dangers that it poses, or simply not caring. Others unfortunately may not be able to avoid it due to personal circumstances such as disability or reliance on government assistance. But eventually as these programs become mandatory each individual will have to navigate a set of unique challenges and make a series of difficult decisions as to exactly where their line in the sand is.

Will you comply with digital ID mandates if it means you would no longer have access to social media? Would you submit if platforms such as PlayStation or Xbox, Spotify or YouTube suddenly require digital ID to access their services, or find other avenues of engaging with such entertainment?

How would you react if Amazon implemented a digital ID requirement to access your account? Would you be willing to still use it?

Have you considered how you would adjust travel plans once digital ID becomes a requirement for domestic air travel?

What if it becomes implemented as a necessity for crossing state borders?

Certainly it will inevitably become the standard requirement for international travel as well.

And what of a scenario in which in person shopping, for everything from clothes to groceries, to purchasing vehicles, firearms, or something as mundane as a television requires one to use a digital wallet tied to your digital ID?

These are all very legitimate questions, as every single scenario posed here is likely to become reality sooner rather than later.

Yet this is not meant to serve as a pessimistic “black pill” to dishearten or dismay readers of the coming future. These agendas are not set in stone, and there is something we can do about it.

First and foremost it begins with general resistance, with educating ourselves and our peers about the dangers of these incoming agendas, and organizing efforts of mass resistance and civil disobedience, the refusal to comply with such mandates. It means working to establish parallel systems and counter economics to safeguard against the potential abuses of such programs. It means establishing community cooperatives and networks capable of existing outside of technocratic systems, and grassroots mutual aid projects to help others achieve the same.

Yes, such initiatives will require effort and hard work, and in the meantime may require sacrifices. Resisting authoritarianism is never easy. Liberation is never easy. But in the long run it is much easier than the alternative of losing our most fundamental freedoms to a digital control grid. We can avert the dystopia knocking at our door. But more people have to start fighting back. Join the resistance today.