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From Austria comes the story of 3 ‘rebel’ nuns who left an elderly care home and broke into the historic abbey where they had lived their entire adult lives. While doing so they made headlines worldwide, amassed a captivated and supportive following on social media of over 100,000 people who cheered them on as they […] The post 3 Rebel Nuns Escape Senior Home to Return to Their Abbey Prompting a Win in Showdown with Church appeared first on Good News Network.

News The Magic Faraway Tree The Magic Faraway Tree Trailer Brings Enid Blyton’s Classic Fantasy Book to Life There are more than a few laughs in store as well in this very British film By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on December 3, 2025 Screenshot: ONE Media Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: ONE Media The fantasy adventure movie The Magic Faraway Tree has its first trailer, and in it we see a father played by Andrew Garfield and a mother played by Claire Foy move their family to a farm in the woods where their three children—Joe, Beth, and Fran—have trouble adjusting because of the lack of Wi-Fi. The woods near the farm, however, are magical! And Fran first travels there and meets loads of magical beings, including Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan, Sweet Tooth’s Nonso Anozie, and Baby Reindeer’s Jessica Gunning. The trailer, released today, also includes some quick shots of Rebecca Ferguson (Dune and Silo) as the dubious Dame Snap, and sees the other children get in on the magical action as they visit different magical lands. The movie is based on the popular children’s books by Enid Blyton that were originally published between 1939 and 1951. They’ve been updated since then, as they have in this film, given that Wi-Fi wasn’t really a thing 80 or so years ago. The trailer today looks delightful and, in my opinion, bodes well for the film. What also bodes well for the movie is that the script comes from Simon Farnaby, the co-writer of Paddington 2, so expectations are high for this one. Fatherhood filmmaker Ben Gregor also directed, which is another sign in the film’s favor. There isn’t currently a release date for The Magic Faraway Tree in the United States, though fingers crossed we’ll be able to see it in theaters soon. In the meantime, check out the trailer below. [end-mark] The post <i>The Magic Faraway Tree</i> Trailer Brings Enid Blyton’s Classic Fantasy Book to Life appeared first on Reactor.

Excerpts fantasy Read an Excerpt From Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez She was never meant to be seen. Now she’s a weapon the world can’t ignore. By Isabel Ibañez | Published on December 3, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez, a historical and romantic fantasy out from Saturday Books on January 13, 2026. As a sculptress, Ravenna Maffei has always shaped beauty from stone but she has a terrible secret. Desperate to save her brother, she enters a competition hosted by Florence’s most feared immortal family, revealing a dark power in a city where magic is forbidden.Now a captive in the cutthroat city of Florence, Ravenna is forced into a dangerous task where failure meets certain death at the hands of Saturnino dei Luni, the immortal family’s mesmerizing but merciless heir. But as he draws her closer, Ravenna realizes the true threat lies beyond Florence’s walls.The Pope’s war against magic is closing in, and Ravenna is no longer just a prisoner but a prize to be claimed. As trusting the wrong person becomes lethal, Ravenna must survive the treacherous line between a pope’s obsession and the seductive immortal who might be the end of her—or surrender her power to a city on the brink of war. Capitolo Due The hour grew late, and the night became longer and darker as Ravenna laid her tools in a neat row on the scarred wooden table in her studio. The flat and claw chisels, the rasp, a file, her hammer—practically an extension of her palm—her favorite pumice stone, and a soft-bristled brush. Ravenna glanced at the single window that allowed spools of moonlight to gloss over the cramped space. She’d lined the sill with eggshells filled with cinnamon and cloves, painted stones, and snips of parchment with poetry, riddles, and fragments of stories written on them. Offerings to keep the fae at bay. Her mother was as superstitious as she was practical, and she’d raised Ravenna to be the same. Magic had no place in Volterra. Best to keep it out by any means possible. And stifle her own. Ravenna turned back to her worktable. It was her favorite time to sculpt marble, during the midnight hours while all the world slept. She inhaled deeply, comforted by the familiar scents the storage building kept trapped within its stone walls: flour, vanilla, aged wine, canvas, and pine. Outside, the wind began its nightly howl as winter gave its final cry across the rolling hills of Volterra. Ravenna tied a clean linen apron twice around her waist, lit another candle, and then eyed the bozzetto critically. It stood only a foot tall, but there was something about the figurine that seemed to overwhelm the quiet of her studio. For her subject, Ravenna had chosen Pluto, god of the underworld, and even without his face completed, the air around him swirled menacingly. The lushness of his clothing accentuated the broad width of his shoulders, and his strong hands were edged with blunt fingers capable of wielding the most dangerous of weapons. Even without a face, he seemed threatening. Finish me, topolina, or you’ll regret it, he seemed to say in a deadly hush. Ravenna had never been called a little mouse before in all her life. With a burst of annoyance she took the flat chisel and hammer and struck the marble. It gave way easily, the white stone as pure and sparkling as if it had come from the moon. With expert strikes, she nibbled away at the stone, angling cheekbones, carving the fine line of his eyelids, trapping the shadows that made up the contours of his face. With the claw chisel, she scratched the long sweep of eyebrows into place, the arched curve both sardonic and stern. With every step, Ravenna worked to improve each strike: deepening the lines, softening his mouth, adding the wavy details of his shoulder-length hair. It wasn’t until Ravenna finished that she’d realized what she’d done. The face that stared back at her belonged to the man from the alley. Not the Capitano, but the one with the perfect face, coldly beautiful and aloof. Ravenna gaped at the statue, annoyed at herself. How could she have immortalized his face in a work that was meant to save her brother? She shook her head, furious at herself. The wind outside the studio gave a sudden howling protest, and the wooden door burst open with a sudden slam. She jumped at the sound, dust swirling off the worktable, covering her homespun dress in speckles of white and gray. She gaped at the whirlwind as if she were caught in snowstorm, but then the wind abruptly retreated, as if satisfied with the mess it had made. The wooden door swung shut. Her mother would say it was an ill omen. Buy the Book Graceless Heart Isabel Ibañez Buy Book Graceless Heart Isabel Ibañez Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleIndieBoundTarget Ravenna stepped away from the bozzetto and tilted her head. There was still something missing from the piece, an elusive something that would set her work above the rest of the competition. Her calm demeanor wobbled. She’d never presented her work before, other than to her own family. But now there would be an audience, critics evaluating her work. And she knew exactly what they would say. She was an impostor. Her creation was amateur, with no heart and soul. She was a woman doing the noble work of a man. Ravenna set her tools on the table, thrust her hands on her hips. She couldn’t control what the others thought, but she could control what she did now. And that was to create something to save her brother. “Ravenna!” She half turned. Her littlest sister, Tereza, stepped shyly inside her studio, dragging her favorite blanket behind her, a ratty thing that had kept company with all the Maffei children. “Amorina,” Ravenna said. “Little love, did you come here by yourself?” Tereza walked to the tall wooden worktable and stood on tiptoe, clutching the edge to keep balance. “All by myself. Who is it?” she asked. Her dark brown hair was fitted in a braid that draped over a slender shoulder. At only five, Tereza exuded a calming presence, at odds with the rest of the family who spoke in loud and louder volumes. She tucked her index finger inside her mouth, a habit their mother had tried to curb. “Pluto,” Ravenna said. “Do you know who he is?” Tereza nodded once, her delicate features scrunching. “Not the hero.” “Depends on who you ask,” Ravenna said with a wink. “I’ve always thought villains are misunderstood.” Tereza pulled her finger out of her mouth with a small pop. “It’s not done.” The corners of Ravenna’s lips deepened. “I agree. What’s missing, do you think?” “Something shiny,” Tereza said, shrugging. Ravenna pulled at her bottom lip with her teeth. Something shiny. An idea flickered in her mind, one that terrified her even as it sunk deeper in her, a stone tossed into a river. Tereza dropped down from her tiptoed position and turned back to the door. “Mamma says for you to come inside. That your eyes will suffer in the dark. That your work is done, and no one is asking for perfect. But she said to tell you it is perfect. I don’t know why. She hasn’t seen it.” Ravenna tugged at her sister’s long braid. “And what else?” “She doesn’t want you to go tomorrow.” Her heart squeezed. “You’re a good little messenger.” “She also said your breakfast is cold,” Tereza said seriously. “And that it serves you right. She says you are too thin and lonely.” “Five more minutes,” Ravenna said, rolling her eyes. “Will you tell her?” “Yes, but Mamma won’t like it,” Tereza said before slipping out the door. Ravenna stared at the door, unseeing. Her idea tugged at her. She flicked her eyes to the long wooden shelves lining the storage walls, where she’d hidden a terrible secret. It was locked in a box, out of sight, but the air seemed to pulse around it. The hidden magic swirled around her. It whispered against her skin, coaxing her to come closer. No one in Volterra knew she had a whisper of that magic living inside her. From Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez. Copyright © 2026 by the author, and reprinted with permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group. The post Read an Excerpt From <i>Graceless Heart</i> by Isabel Ibañez appeared first on Reactor.

The Trump administration is pushing pause on immigration applications from 19 countries and reviewing approved applications from those same nations. Multiple reports indicate the list of nations could be expanded.   For now, the immigration application pause applies to foreigners from: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Burundi, Chad, Cuba, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, and Yemen.   The 19 counties were already considered “high-risk,” and in June President Donald Trump announced full or partial restrictions on entry of individuals from these nations into the U.S.  Additionally, the U.S. government will conduct a re-review of any foreigner from one of the 19 counties who entered the U.S. since the start of the Biden administration and was granted asylum or withholding of removal.   U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services “has determined the operational necessity to ensure that all asylum applicants and aliens from high-risk countries of concern who entered the United States do not pose a threat to national security or public safety,” USCIS wrote in a Tuesday memo.   The re-evaluation of approved immigration applications is expected to slow the process for those waiting for approval, but “USCIS has determined the operational necessity to ensure that all asylum applicants and aliens from high-risk countries of concern who entered the United States do not pose a threat to national security or public safety,” according to the agency.   The action is being taken following a shooting in the District of Columbia last week that left one National Guard member dead, and another seriously injured. The suspected shooter is an Afghan national who worked with U.S. troops in Afghanistan but came to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul in 2021. The alleged shooter yelled “Allahu akbar,” translated “God is most great,” during the attack, according to documents filed in court on Tuesday and reported by the Washington Post.   The Trump administration has also paused the progressing of all visas for Afghan nationals.   The post 19 Countries Blocked From Immigrating to US  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug boats is bringing the United States closer to war with Venezuela. Paul, a leading critic of foreign intervention, has sharply criticized Trump’s continued strikes on alleged drug traffickers and warned the president against pursuing regime change. Trump declared Venezuelan air space to be closed over the weekend, ratcheting up his pressure campaign against dictator Nicolás Maduro, whom the White House views as an illegitimate leader. “I think most of this is a prelude to war with Venezuela. All of this is a lead up,” Paul told reporters in the Capitol. “I hope it’s not a prelude to war, but I feel like they’re building up towards war,” the senator continued. “Hopefully this second bombing of survivors … which is clearly illegal, hopefully there’ll be enough of an uproar over this, that will slow down the drumbeats.” His comments on Tuesday came in response to Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean Sea, which sparked outrage over concerns that a follow-up strike on two survivors violated the laws of war. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that Admiral Frank Bradley ordered the strikes, but acted within his authority to eliminate the alleged drug traffickers. The White House referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s comments during a Tuesday afternoon cabinet meeting. “We’ve only just begun striking narco boats and putting narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean because they’ve been poisoning the American people,” Hegseth said. “And [former President] Joe Biden tried to approach it with kid gloves.” Paul has faulted the administration for failing to show proof the vessels are trafficking drugs. The boat strikes remain politically popular, according to recent polling. A Nov. 23 CBS News/YouGov poll found that 53% of American adults support military strikes against alleged drug boats. However, the same poll found that seven-in-10 American adults oppose potential U.S. military action Maduro’s regime. Though the Pentagon has limited its strikes against drug traffickers to the Caribbean Sea, Trump has repeatedly floated expanding the military operation to land. “That was what people liked about Donald Trump, was that he wasn’t for these offensive wars of choice,” Paul said. “He wasn’t for regime change.” Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis joined Paul in criticizing the Sept. 2 strikes, pressing for congressional oversight and accountability in the incident. “Somebody made a horrible decision—somebody needs to be held accountable,” Tillis told the DCNF on Tuesday. “You don’t have to have served in the military to understand that that was a violation of ethical, moral, and legal code. And so if the facts play out the way they’re currently being reported, then somebody needs to get the hell out of Washington.” Both the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee have launched inquiries into the lethal double-strike. Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt defended the Secretary of War, calling the Washington Post story that first reported on the Sept. 2 strikes “totally debunked.” “This nonsense about it being a war crime is total bulls—. It’s all they have,” Schmitt told reporters on Tuesday. “And the desire then to treat [Hegseth] as a war criminal, to treat servicemen as war criminals, is beyond just a normal political debate.” Democrat lawmakers have largely denounced the deadly strike and called for Hegseth’s resignation despite the White House saying Hegseth did not make an order to kill the survivors. “This is beyond the pale, and we would not accept it, and we never have accepted it, from any other administration in my lifetime,” Democrat Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen told the DCNF. “And so we cannot normalize this. Laws are not suggestions. The rules of engagement are not suggestions at someone’s whim.” “[Hegseth] likes to tout his position as a secretary: He’s the one in charge. Everything stops with him. The buck stops at his desk for everything that happens … He needs to take responsibility. He needs to resign,” Rosen continued. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Rand Paul Says Trump Boat Strikes ‘Prelude to War’ With Venezuela appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. When fifty Edmonton, Alberta, police officers stepped onto city streets this week, they carried more than their standard-issue equipment. Clipped to their uniforms were small, black devices capable of something no other police body camera in Canada has done before: recognizing faces. The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) has become the country’s first force to test facial recognition-equipped body cameras, entering a new and deeply contested phase of public surveillance. The pilot program, which runs through the end of December, puts the technology directly into daily policing. The cameras, built by Axon Enterprise, the American company behind the ubiquitous Taser and many of North America’s police tech systems, connect field officers to a biometric network that scans faces against EPS’s existing database of mugshots. Acting Superintendent Kurt Martin presented the move as a practical, safety-oriented upgrade. More: The Next Surveillance Boom Is Taking Flight With more than 6,300 individuals currently flagged for serious offenses, he said, the technology could help officers “recognize people who have outstanding warrants for serious offenses.” For Martin, this is not about creating a digital dragnet but about closing cases faster and reducing risks in uncertain encounters. The mechanics of the system reveal its complexity. When a camera records, every face within roughly four meters enters a digital pipeline where software compares it to known offenders in the EPS database. Images without a match are supposed to be erased. The facial recognition feature is not always active; it remains off during routine patrols and switches on only when enforcement begins or during later investigative reviews. Yet the question remains: how much discretion can a human exercise once the algorithm has made a suggestion? Not everyone is convinced this experiment is ready for the real world. What makes Edmonton’s pilot remarkable is how it integrates facial recognition directly into an officer’s line of sight. Traditional systems rely on fixed cameras at airports or stadiums, where surveillance is static and predictable. Body-worn cameras, by contrast, move through neighborhoods, homes, and private businesses, gathering footage that reflects the rhythms of daily life. Even if non-matching faces are deleted, the simple act of scanning them reframes what it means to appear in public space. Such technology edges society toward continuous, automated observation, a state where anonymity in public becomes a relic. The EPS pilot is only a few weeks old, yet it is already a bellwether for Canadian law enforcement. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Edmonton Becomes First in Canada to Test Facial Recognition Body Cameras in Police Pilot Program appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. At a press conference that could have been a comedy sketch idea, Australia’s “eSafety” Commissioner Julie Inman Grant and Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek stood before the cameras and solemnly warned the nation about the perils of surveillance. Not from government programs or sweeping digital mandates, but from smart cars and connected devices. The irony was not lost on anyone paying attention. Both Grant and Plibersek are enthusiastic backers of the country’s new online age verification law, the so-called Social Media Minimum Age Bill 2024, a law that has done more to expand digital surveillance than any gadget in a Toyota. The legislation bans under-16s from social media and requires users to prove their age through “assurance” systems that often involve facial scans, ID uploads, and data analysis so invasive it would make a marketing executive blush. But on the same day she cautioned the public about the dangers of “connected” cars sharing sensitive information with third parties, Grant’s agency was publishing rules that literally require social media platforms to share sensitive data with third parties. During the press conference, Grant complained that “it’s disappointing” YouTube and other platforms hadn’t yet released their guidance on how they’ll implement verification. She announced that eSafety will begin issuing “gathering information notices” on December 10, demanding details from companies about how they plan to comply once her expanded powers take effect. She also warned that some of the smaller apps users are migrating to may soon “become age-restricted social media platforms.” The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) explains that compliance under this law can involve “age estimation” using facial analysis, “age inference” through data modeling of user activity, or “age verification” with government ID. All three options amount to building a surveillance apparatus around everyday users. Facial recognition, voice modeling, behavioral tracking; pick your poison. Most platforms outsource this work to private firms, which means that the same sensitive data the law claims to protect is immediately handed to a commercial intermediary. Meta, for example, relies on Yoti, a third-party ID verification company. Others use firms like Au10tix, which famously left troves of ID scans exposed online for over a year. The law includes what politicians like to call “strong privacy safeguards.” Platforms must only collect the data necessary for verification, must destroy it once it’s used, and must never reuse it for other purposes. It’s the same promise every company makes before it gets hacked or “inadvertently” leaks user data. Even small dating apps that claimed to delete verification selfies “immediately after completion” managed to leak those same selfies. In every case, the breach followed the same pattern: grand assurances, then exposure. Julie Inman Grant calls it protecting the public. Tanya Plibersek calls it social responsibility. The rest of us might call it what it actually is: institutionalized data collection, dressed in the language of child safety. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Australia’s Top Censor Warns of Surveillance While Hypocritically Expanding It appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The latest congressional hearing on “protecting children online” opened as you would expect: the same characters, the same script, a few new buzzwords, and a familiar moral panic to which the answer is mass surveillance and censorship. The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade had convened to discuss a set of draft bills packaged as the “Kids Online Safety Package.” The name alone sounded like a software update against civil liberties. The hearing was called “Legislative Solutions to Protect Children and Teens Online.” Everyone on the dais seemed eager to prove they were on the side of the kids, which meant, as usual, promising to make the internet less free for everyone else. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), who chaired the hearing, kicked things off by assuring everyone that the proposed bills were “mindful of the Constitution’s protections for free speech.” He then reminded the audience that “laws with good intentions have been struck down for violating the First Amendment” and added, with all the solemnity of a man about to make that same mistake again, that “a law that gets struck down in court does not protect a child.” They know these bills are legally risky, but they’re going to do it anyway. Bilirakis’s point was echoed later by House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY), who claimed the bills had been “curated to withstand constitutional challenges.” That word, curated, was doing a lot of work. Guthrie went on to insist that “age verification is needed…even before logging in” to trigger privacy protections under COPPA 2.0. The irony of requiring people to surrender their private information in order to be protected from privacy violations was lost in the shuffle. Guthrie praised the TAKE IT DOWN Act, signed by President Trump in May, as a model of legislative virtue, despite the fact that digital rights groups have flagged it for censorship risks and missing safeguards. “Countless other harms exist,” Guthrie warned, “and it is our responsibility to find a solution.” The phrase “find a solution” is Capitol Hill’s version of the blue screen of death: a signal that the machine has crashed, but no one wants to admit it. The only people complaining were Democrats, and not because the bills threatened privacy or free expression. Their gripe was that the bills didn’t go far enough. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) called the current proposals “really frustrating,” adding that “the legislation that has been offered by the Republicans does not do the job” and “we have a long, long way to go to protect our children.” Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) joined in, labeling the Republican-backed versions of COPPA and KOSA “weak,” “ineffectual,” and “a slap in the face to the parents, the experts, and the advocates.” She called for Congress to strengthen the bills, which in practice means adding even more enforcement power to age verification and content moderation regimes. Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) said the proposals had been “gutted and co-opted by Big Tech.” That line played well for cameras, but it rang hollow coming from a party that spent years demanding that tech companies police speech harder and faster. It was a bipartisan competition to see who could sound more outraged about the dangers of screens. The private sector witnesses tried to slow the rush toward universal ID checks. Paul Lekas of the Software & Information Industry Association gently reminded lawmakers that while the Supreme Court had upheld some forms of age verification for “unprotected sexually explicit material,” broader mandates could be unconstitutional. He offered “age estimation” as a compromise, a technology that guesses your age from data like facial features or online behavior, a system that sounds like surveillance with a smile. Kate Ruane from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) took a sharper tone. She warned that the bills carried “significant privacy risks” and lacked “sufficient guardrails to protect and require security practices within the age assurance requirements.” In other words, the proposals could create a sprawling, insecure ID infrastructure in the name of keeping kids safe. Still, CDT, an organization that has previously supported crackdowns on “disinformation,” wasn’t opposed to the idea of more regulation. They just wanted it done right. Every side at this hearing had a version of “we agree with censorship, but only ours.” Marc Berkman, CEO of the Organization for Social Media Safety, did his part for the cause, declaring that “we need to find consensus and pass meaningful social media safety legislation this year to protect our children.” The phrase “meaningful legislation” is another Beltway placeholder, something you say when the substance doesn’t hold up but the sentiment polls well. Joel Thayer of the Digital Progress Institute endorsed the whole package, particularly the App Store Accountability Act, the SCREEN Act, and KOSA. His testimony provided cover for lawmakers eager to claim bipartisanship while ignoring the reality that the bills collectively amount to a new system of mandatory content filters and identity checks. Then came Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL), who pitched his Safe Messaging for Kids Act like a public service announcement from 1999. Dunn warned that ephemeral messages, the kind that disappear after you send them, were a “dangerous feature.” His bill would ban social media platforms from offering them to “any user they know is a minor under 17.” That standard all but forces companies to collect proof of age from everyone or treat all users like minors. The hearing was supposedly about protecting children, but every fix circled back to tagging and tracking everyone. Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) wrapped up the policy side with a tidy summary: age verification, he said, is “key to the protections we’re trying to provide here.” His preferred version would happen at the operating system level, meaning your phone, computer, or console would verify your age for everything else. By the end, it was hard to tell whether lawmakers believed their own talking points or were simply keeping up with the moral fashion of the day. The hearing wasn’t about solving anything; it was about signaling concern. Each side spoke about protecting children while ignoring the real tension between privacy, speech, and power. As always, the session ended without progress and without reflection on what happens when the government starts requiring people to prove who they are to speak, read, or log in. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post As Expected, a Hearing on Kids Online Safety Becomes a Blueprint for Digital ID appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

In August 2022, a company named Flock Group Inc., already running a nationwide web of license-plate cameras, secured a US patent that quietly sketches out the next logical step: total video integration. It is called US 11,416,545 B1, a bureaucratic title for what amounts to a manual on building a surveillance organism. Become a Member and Keep Reading… Reclaim your digital freedom. Get the latest on censorship, cancel culture, and surveillance, and learn how to fight back. Join Already a supporter? Sign In. (If you’re already logged in but still seeing this, refresh this page to show the post.) The post How One Patent Envisions a Nation Under Surveillance appeared first on Reclaim The Net.