Governments and corporations want you to believe that verifying your age on the internet is harmless. Three hacktivists have now exposed that we are sold as software to protect the children is in reality the most powerful tool for extrajudicial persecution on the planet. Every click, every post, every profile you have on the internet is analyzed and evaluated. Pictures of your face, subjected to over 250 verification checks, compared to watchlists via facial recognition, and stored for up to 3 years on some central server, along with your IP address, device, and browser fingerprint. And with its integrated financial reporting that the software provides to financial institutions, banks now have direct access to scan your entire online life – and report you to the government. This combination is not coincidental, and it can do a lot more than just land you on a watchlist. When the same software to surveil you online is used to determine whether you can have a bank account, one wrong post on social media can have you lose your home, your job, your savings, and your life. There once was a regime that perfected the use of banks for political persecution. It did not end well for those who dared to speak their minds. Dystopian is too weak of a word to describe the future we are heading towards.