
Australia has introduced the world's first law banning under-16s from large social media platforms, triggering a global wave of governments mandating biometric age assurance and digital identity checks for internet access. This rapid normalisation of government-controlled digital identity infrastructure represents a significant step toward the kind of centralised oversight and population monitoring that Scripture associates with the end-times system of control. Revelation 13 describes a world system in which participation in society is gated by authorised identity — a framework now being technically constructed under the banner of child safety.