User:JodyBruchonFan/Starve the oppressors

The metaphor "Do not feed the trolls", also known as "Deny recognition to the trolls", is a commonly followed principle in online communities. How about we apply the very same principle to our corporate and political overlords the next time they feel like taking our freedoms away?

The only recourse against tyrannical oppressors is not complying with their fantasies, by cutting them off. Linux distributors should simply stop distributing in states that want this age verification crap, and blacklist their IP addresses. The same goes for regions that demand ID verification for social media.^[1] This is the only effective way to treat policymakers who lost touch with reality.

Oppressors need to be starved, not fed. Complying with the oppressor ("feeding the oppressor") makes them want more and more. First, they make laws against outsmarting Digital Restrictions Malware. Then they force operating system developers to add age verification.^[2][3] Next, they could mandate corporate/government backdoors in computers, similar to what North Korea did with Red Star OS. It happening on a distant part of the world doesn't mean it can't happen here.^[4]

Main article: Android Developer Verification

KeepAndroidOpen.org puts it succinctly:

Developers

DO NOT SIGN UP. Don't join the program by signing up for the Android Developer Console and agreeing to their irrevocable Terms and Conditions. Don't verify your identity. Don't play ball.

Google's plan only works if developers comply. Don't.

As of July 2026, only two US states require the age verification nonsense: California and Colorado.

Why should age verification be implemented in Linux worldwide, just because the governors of two states lost touch with reality? A much more sensible solution would be to cut these two states out.

If the other states see how a worldwide project gives into the demands of just one or two states, they will get the idea of implementing age verification laws as well, thinking "California is doing it, so why aren't we?"

And before you know it, what stated in one state spreads to most, if not all states.

Like a tumor, such laws need to be stopped in early stages, before it is too late. Starve the oppressors and these bad laws lose their effectiveness.

So, I have a solution to this. And the whole point of this video is my solution to this problem.

It is a bit extreme, however, this problem goes away in a matter of weeks if you do what I suggest you do.

I don't have faith that [they] will do it because they think that, "oh no, we'll lose money because we we won't have access to those markets!"

But this is what must be done to solve this problem.

Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, Google, [...], all of them, every single website, everything, every major website that's in the United States, where - that's headquartered in the United States, whatever, every single one that is a US company (and I didn't check to make sure they're all US companies, but) even if they're not US companies, if you want this to stop, turn them off.

Turn off Britain. Turn off Australia.

Just those two. Those two alone, your problem is solved.

You do not have a censorship issue, if you completely disable your website for those countries.

You don't put up a banner that says, "Oh, we don't like your country's laws, so we're doing that."

No, you just blacklist the whole IP range.

You stop all of the servers from responding to any IP, from all of those countries.

Every single person that's in Britain, that's in Australia, and any other place that tries to pull this censorship crap, or they try to extend their laws to other things on the internet, making YouTube censor my videos. [...]

What really needs to happen is, these countries need to feel the consequences of their actions.

Now we've gotten a, shall we say, a Coke Zero - a Diet Pepsi version of this. We we've gotten a tab from the 80s version of this in the form of X - no, Twitter, because screw calling it "X", that's stupid - have decided to overcensor to make the point.

But they're not wrong. Overcensoring is the only way to make sure you don't fall afoul of these weird laws.

And, the thing is, the UK government is actually saying to X: "Hey, don't do that, you're gonna make us look bad!"

Well, ____ you! ____ you!

Oh, I'll make you look bad! Oh, you ____ with me, and then I make you look bad, by doing what you told me to do?

Oh, boohoo! Oh, oh, what a tragedy! I feel so bad for the poor Starmer UK government!

Aww, I made you look bad on the Internet by doing exactly what you told me to do?

And it had exactly the response that I told you it would have?

Oh, how sudden, couldn't see this coming. Oh, that's hoooorrible! I feel so baaaaaaaaaaaaad!

Except I ____ing don't.

– Jody Bruchon, in Time To Cut Off Internet To The UK And Australia, F Them - ROLLIN' RAMPAGE, 08:51 ^[1]

Various music streaming platforms like Spotify and SoundCloud have implemented Digital Restrictions Malware. Of course, the reason they are able to is because web browser makers cave into the demand.

Unfortunately, with the DRM-happy Google^[5] being the dominant web browser provider, others like Mozilla will be forced to comply if they don't wish to lose their small remaining userbase.

When banks and Netflix start using it, they've effectively cornered other engines into implementing it. – Louis Rossmann^[6]