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19 June 2026

The UK and Australian governments are leading the Western world in rolling out online tracking and censorship.

As I've said before, this is all being done under the Trojan horse guise of "protecting the children" but the real underlying agenda is to ensure that nobody uses the internet without being identified, surveilled and tracked.

The amount of power this hands a government is enormous. In fact it's downright dangerously enormous.

Dissent can be cracked down on in a very effective and even automated manner, ensuring that anti-government sentiment is effectively forbidden and punished in a way that quenches free speech and other freedoms.

I'm sure some folk reading this are rolling their eyes and thinking "yeah, right -- this will never happen" -- but it will.

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