Actionable Take - Episode 3

Week ending December 6, 2025

Actionable Take - Episode 3

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I did the Livestream on Saturday December 6 (Australian Eastern Standard Time). Here is how the front page of the Sunday edition of the biggest newspaper in my home state of Queensland (owned by News Corp) looked the following morning:

As the saying goes:

The more things change, the more they stay the same

And also:

History doesn't repeat...but it often rhymes

"Papers please" schemes to access the Internet rollout in perfect lockstep

Remember that word "LOCKSTEP"?

Australia is leading the charge

Link to source

Strong opposition is coming from places you wouldn't intuitively expect

Australia's 'leader' of the "Opposition" had to say this back in June:

Her stance hasn't changed much but at least the "shadow" communication minister is not singing to exactly the same tune:

Interestingly, some of the strongest and most consistent opposition to the imminent ban is coming from the (far) left side of politics:

There are even some morons who make a point reminding this Greens Senator to keep quiet and stick to the talking points as to not help the "conservatives".

Some people will only stop playing the (utterly NONSENSICAL) political 'sides' game when they are locked up in the Digital Gulag....or DEAD!

Other jurisdictions joining soon...or already have!

The UK is prime example

Other jurisdictions are not far behind

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All the states and countries that have age-verification laws (so far)
This list will likely grow longer.
Congress Goes Parental on Social Media and Your Privacy
A campaign to protect kids online turns into a blueprint for government-approved speech and surveillance.
Social media age limit? New bill wants Nova Scotia to lead the way for Canada | Globalnews.ca
The party announced Wednesday that Liberal House leader Iain Rankin will table the Social Media Responsibility Act this fall, which would ban kids under 16 from using social media.
Quebec committee recommends restricting social media accounts for youth under 14 | Globalnews.ca
The recommendation was in the final report of the all-party committee studying the impact of screen time on young people’s health.

Platforms prepare to clamp down

Australians to face age checks from search engines
Logged in to Google or Microsoft? Age assurance is coming.
YouTube access restrictions for users under 16 in Australia - YouTube Help
Due to a new law in Australia, the minimum age required to sign in to YouTube in Australia is 16. This means that starting on 10 December 2025, users under 16 years old will be automatically sign
Substack shows their hand on "age verification"
Our position on the Online Safety Act
Here’s how we’re complying with the U.K. and Australia’s new regulatory measures
Substack Introduces ID Checks to Comply with UK Censorship Law
A cozy corner for writers is turning into a TSA line for ideas.

Next stop: Digital ID

That locomotive is not stopping for anyone

Here too Australia is leading the charge

Hey Australia…and everyone else too (because it will work exactly the same in your country): With the “age verification” measures kicking in TOMORROW, do you understand what: And in the future, other places too ACTUALLY means? If not, @nobody’s take outlines it very very clearly in this conversation with @Courage Is The Cure: https://rumble.com/v72j8rq-podcast-relentless-nobodys-take-nobodystakee-ep-126.html I agree with his assessment 100% and think he is TOTALLY on the money there (literally!). The next step after that (“Stablecoins”) is READY NOW as you can see in the note below: https://substack.com/@michaelginsburg/note/c-185703869

- Michael Ginsburg

Read on Substack
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Once all other "age verification/assurance" methods fail (BY DESIGN as nobodystakee says very astutely in the above video) we know what is going to remain as the ONLY option...because we've already been told that in no uncertain terms:

And in the future, other places too
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At least it will be "voluntary", right?

We understand how this works now, YES?

If you still don't, this should bring you up to speed:

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India (the I in BRICS) has been there for close to a DECADE now

Here is an interview I did back in May with Paul Conlon who researched this topic very deeply for his book:

Other jurisdictions (like the US) are 'onboarding' as we speak

So much for "think different" I guess...

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I'm sure I don't need to explain here again what are the dangers of Digital ID and what comes after that but if you need a quick recap of the unique threats of the biometric data being collected by these schemes, you can find it here.

So what do we do now?

And what is not an option...

Let's start with:

What NOT to do?

Run away

To all the commenters urging me to run away from Germany, or scolding me for not having already run away from Germany, or blaming me for my legal situation because I haven't already run away from Germany, please give it a rest. I’ve never been one to run from a fight. Running away and hiding might be the right strategy for some of you, but it isn't for me. I may leave Germany, on my own terms, once this fight is over, but I'm certainly not going to run and hide from these bullies in the middle of it. Some principles and rights are still worth standing up and fighting for. Freedom of speech is one of them.

- CJ Hopkins

Read on Substack

These numbnuts chose to run away to the UK of all places...

Influencer family leaves Australia over teen social media ban
The family with more than six million followers will make the move to keep their daughter online and protect their business.

Use a VPN as the first (or only) measure of resistance/non-compliance

I am not entirely against using a VPN but there are things that need to happen FIRST.

Jim Stewart is one of the most experienced digital marketing and SEO (search engine optimisation) professionals in Australia. He’s been doing this since the late 1990s, before terms like SEO (or Google for that matter) even existed. He touches on some very important points in this video in relation to the imminent social media ban in Australia from the perspective of businesses. If you read between the lines of what he is saying, there is a very important point being made here as to how this legislation can be defeated using the angle businesses big and small care very much about: $$$. If overall usage of social media and search engines that choose to comply with the legislation (e.g. Google and Bing) DROPS significantly, it means they have less eyeballs to offer advertisers and as a result, will make less money. It will also make it less worthwhile for businesses to target eyeballs through paid acquisition channels as well as organically on both social and search. This is those platforms bread and butter and where most (if not all) of their revenue comes from. For those who don't follow, here is where I am going with this: The best thing you can do to help defeat this legislation is NOT write letters to politicians, sign petitions or attend rallies. What you should do instead is: ABANDON ANY social media or search engine platform which chooses to comply. No ifs, no buts, no exceptions! Maintain said stance until the platforms or the government capitulate unconditionally due to pressure from the business sector. Using a VPN to circumvent age verification mandates is literally the OPPOSITE of the right things to do because it means you remain on the platform which has chosen to comply. If you are a content creator, STOP providing new content to said platforms and seriously consider removing any existing content until the platform stops complying. I have today disconnected my Stripe account completely from Substack and have ceased all monetisation thus denying Substack of their 10% revenue share. I will also not be publishing any more new posts on my Substack with all new content going exclusively to my own website and private community. Substack is now exactly at the same point as Facebook was prior to it going public and growing its user base rapidly is the thing that is of most importance to it. If usage instead starts dropping, @Marc Andreessen and @a16z will not be very happy and may order @Chris Best & Co. to push back on the legislation in Australia or the UK, especially if they were planning an exit through a sale or an IPO. To reiterate: I have disconnected Stripe from my Substack and all monetisation through Substack has now ceased; and I will not be publishing any more content on my Substack. If you want to stay across my content going forward, join my mailing list or the private community. Time to go back to the Internet as it was in the early 2000s instead of negotiating with tyrants…or complying with their nonsense god forbid! https://sendfox.com/actionabletruth https://community.actionabletruth.media/ https://youtu.be/_gydeWRQhVE

- Michael Ginsburg

Read on Substack

Without doing the above FIRST, it's basically the equivalent of simply choosing to get a fake "vaccine passport"/proof of "vaccination".

VPN was NEVER the way to go @Meryl Dorey for the very simple reason that using it to keep accessing a "designated platform" that has chosen to comply (like YouTube, Facebook/Instagram, Snapchat and also substack) is the equivalent of opting to get a fake "vaccine passport" during the mandates. I do not support such approach as I don't negotiate or compromise with tyrants on anything...EVER! Any platform that chooses to comply should be ABANDONED (including this one we are on). No ifs, no buts, no exceptions! https://informedchoice.substack.com/p/sixteen-minutes-of-truth-about-australian?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

- Michael Ginsburg

Read on Substack

What is the RIGHT response?

To start with: make fun of the enemy

Laughter is good for the soul!

ABANDON any social media platform which chooses to comply

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This is the video that help me cement the above tactic in my head (the specific point where this was mentioned is starting from 3:48 minutes in):

I am NOT playing games and I practice what I preach. I may need to do the exact same thing to my entire Substack account at ANY point which will nuke everything I have on this platform including the 120+ posts on my Substack and thousands of notes I have posted over the years. I will do so without ANY hesitation as I have learnt my lesson during Covid. HAVE YOU? P.S: I am scaling down my posting on Substack Notes significantly effective today. If you want to keep hearing from me, subscribe to my own mailing list (not connected to Substack in any way): https://sendfox.com/actionabletruth https://substack.com/@michaelginsburg/note/c-185012492

- Michael Ginsburg

Read on Substack

Support ANY effort to decentralise the Internet

The current state of affairs is not sustainable and cannot continue.

‘Unacceptable’: Cloudflare outage takes down LinkedIn, Zoom
Web giant suffers second incident in less than a month.
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As I said in the above clip and also during the Livestream, the Internet was originally designed to be resilient (but not secure!) and one of the most important aspects which was supposed to enable such resilience was decentralisation.

The Internet was designed to be built around PROTOCOLS rather than around huge platforms which have come to dominate it, especially following the tech crash of the early 2000s.

It is time to get back to that!

One protocol which I am able to tap into directly and without intermediaries because I chose to use Ghost as the software on which this website runs is called ActivityPub and here is what it's about:

ActivityPub is the protocol on which what's called the Fediverse is running. The Fediverse is NOT a single platform but rather various services which all share the same protocol (being ActivityPub):

Another service worth highlighting is Session:

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In very simple terms, you can think of Session as a decentralised version of the instant messenger Signal.

Signal runs on the Signal Protocol which is open source. This allowed the team behind Session to improve on it in several key aspects:

  1. It runs on a decentralised network making it much more difficult to shut down;
  2. It improves significantly on the encryption provided by Signal itself; and
  3. It doesn't keep ANY information on its users (not even a phone number like Signal used to do until very recently) and this is BY DESIGN and cannot be changed...EVER!
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This video will teach you everything you will need to know to start using Session fairly confidently:

I have been using Session myself for well over two years now and can't recommend it highly enough.

I am however not 'married' to it...or to any other specific service/application. If something better comes along or Session goes through a process of "enshitification" (kinda like what Substack is going through at the moment), I will jump ship without looking back.

Here is another approach/solution I have come across recently and plan to explore further:

Here are two more resources that are worth checking out, especially if you are YouTuber and are concerned for your future on that platform (and rightfully so I might add):

We don’t love PeerTube enough
Your opportunity to take part in decentralized media
Techie talk: PeerTube & Self-Hosting
Reposted from my technical blog

What if all of the above is not enough?

What is discussed below will unfortunately involve quite a bit of PAIN...but it will hurt a lot more if we DON'T do it!

What is discussed below may seem extreme to you but if we fail to stop the Digital ID locomotive, we may be left with no other choice unfortunately.

I introduce the idea here:

This is how we ACTUALLY DEFEAT Digital ID
Failure is NOT an option!

I gave an interview to Robyn from Courage is the Cure where I expanded further on this idea:

If all else FAILS...

What I am saying in the above interviews may sound extreme but hopefully you change your mind after you have a listen to this:

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This is the interview the above clip is taken from:

Here is another short clip that is very pertinent right now:

And here is a look into our collective (very near) future if we fail to stop the enemy's relentless march towards their endgame:

What do we do in practical terms if "all else fails"?

Doc Malik does a good job in my opinion introducing the appropriate frame of mind in this piece he published on his Substack:

Raising Awareness Is Not Enough - Why the Time Has Come for Mass Non-Compliance
Dear readers

As you can probably see below, I am a 'bit' further down this road now:

Shut DOWN the government revenue stream! Shut DOWN the economy! Bring DOWN the banking system! Bring DOWN all critical infrastructure! Do NOT consider the consequences. Do NOT flinch….and do NOT resort to mindless violence (against the officials of the local regime subsidiary or their enforcers...or each other god forbid!). JUST STOP PARTICIPATING PERMANENTLY….until it ALL comes crashing down!!!! We do NOT want to negotiate with the local regime subsidiary. We do NOT want them to listen to us. We do NOT even want them to cater for our demands (because they NEVER actually will). WE JUST WANT THEM G-O-N-E! FOREVER!! ALL OF THEM!!! Sure, chaos may (and likely will) ensue in the immediate aftermath but in my mind chaos is better than SLAVERY. Sure, it is extremely likely many people will get hurt or even perish as a result of such chaos…but I ASSURE YOU WITH CERTAINTY that A LOT MORE will face the same fate if we DON’T take this action. We have made A LOT of mistakes and wasted A LOT of time on things that could never move the needle (e.g. voting, signing petitions or attempting to get justice through the courts which is akin to trying to take down the Casino by playing its own slot machines), and even outright nonsense (e.g. “It’s the Jews/Muslims/Migrants/left/right/[enter subgroup of your choice here]”), before we (or at least some of us) realised the TRUE nature of our predicament. As a result, there are unfortunately NO good or painless options left …NONE! All that’s left to choose from now is between “not great” , “bad” , “terrible” and “horrific” (the latter is the result of doing nothing or continue voting/demonstrating/signing petitions which is basically the same thing as doing nothing…and the definition of INSANITY). Even what I describe above (as extreme as it may seem to some) is not an option that will remain on the table forever. As AI and Digital ID (a.k.a. the “final enslavement”) rise, the “not great” and “bad” options will be taken off the table and only the last two will remain. Do not go gentle into that good night… Rage, rage against the dying of the light. https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/decentralised-leaderless-resistance?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=yylj

- Michael Ginsburg

Read on Substack

Let me elaborate on two specific aspects that I believe can ACTUALLY move the needle