I don't usually get into politics on FA but I got to rant a bit here with the latest round of "online safety" bills being pushed and it looking like these will be going to become law no matter what. I'll leave the tinfoil hat thoughts aside, but in any case these have nothing to do with protecting children but simply governments seizing more power for themselves, and combined with the payment processors and banks goign apeshit and freezing accounts of people things are looking dire. Oh sure just give them your personal information and prove you're an adult, it will be fine...not like these companies have their servers hacked every five minutes and millions of people's date stolen every day. Europe is currently working on it's own draconian law where they will give themselves access to all our private communications, for the safety of the children obviously we must give up all privacy and sign up for the social credit score. And sure every other year they bring up these online safety bills and they get shot down, but this time it seems like they are determined to push this through on a global scale no matter what.

This nonsense has already effected me since my credit card already does not work anymore with a number of websites( hence why I can no longer use payment alternatives like Boosty and hipolink), and my bank has been pestering me to find out what I've been spending MY money on online through paypal. They even froze the savings accounts of our kids citing "suspicious activity" even though money only gets deposited on there untill they're 18 and nothing has been taken out so I don't know what this suspicious activity is suposed to be, they won't say over the phone. We're currently seeing what we can do about getting those accounts unfrozen and maybe switching to another bank, but the problem is which bank can still be trusted to not be control freaks?

If any of these bills pass I wonder if I'm going to have to hand over my personal information and ID to FA and if my account is just going to be suspended here if I refuse to do so... So yeah if I suddenly vanish and my FA account is tagged as suspended or gone completely you may have an idea why. I hope I am just being overly paranoid here and this blows over like a fart in the wind like previous times one of these online safety bills has been pushed, but the fact this is happening everywhere at once now is very concerning.

Sometimes I wonder what rediculous timeline I've ended up in and how do I get back to my own?