The United Kingdom now has some of the worst online censorship in Europe.
Now that system is now being quietly imported into America.
The people behind it have already spread bills across 21 American states – and hid who they were while doing it.
Age Verification Laws Are Building a Permanent Surveillance Record of Every Website Americans Visit
Twenty-one states and Congress are now considering legislation that requires Americans to verify their identities before accessing websites.
The pitch is child safety but the mechanism is something else entirely.
Under these laws, websites must confirm who is visiting before allowing access – meaning every user's real name is permanently attached to their entire browsing history.
The same British organizations lobbying for these laws have already argued that Americans using VPNs – the tool that keeps browsing private – should face additional identity checks on top of standard verification.
Anonymity is not a loophole.
It is the last barrier between a government-connected censorship network and a complete record of every American's political activity online.
California passed the first version of this law in 2022. Ten more states have since enacted similar bills. Twenty-one are now engaged, and the campaign has reached Congress.
Every one of those bills traces back to the same source.
The British Group Behind California's Digital ID Law Hid Its Foreign Agent Status for over a Year
A network of British globalist organizations is driving the push – and at the center of it is the 5Rights Foundation, chaired by Baroness Kidron.
The group co-designed California's Age Appropriate Design Code – the bill that became the blueprint for the entire national push.
5Rights' own federal filings confirm the organization is registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The group paid lobbying firm Capitol Connection $50,000 to push the California bill through Sacramento.
None of it was filed as foreign agent lobbying until 2024 – more than a year after the bill was already signed into law.
5Rights' disclosure omitted any explanation of how much authority Baroness Kidron – the foundation's creator – actually exercised over the organization.
The law took effect while the foreign agent paperwork sat unfiled.
An investigation by Effort found that 5Rights has since engaged on 42 pieces of legislation across 18 states, with 11 of those bills becoming law.
But one organization in this campaign has a conflict the others don't.
The Age Verification Providers Association is a British trade group whose members sell age-verification and age-estimation technology.
Those members profit directly – by the contract – every time a state mandates the systems they are lobbying legislators to require.
Not one of those legislators was told that one of the chief organizations lobbying for the mandate also invoices for the solution.
The UK Online Safety Act Network Is Already Inside the Platforms That Will Enforce Online Censorship in America
Britain's Online Safety Act is the finished version of what these organizations are building in America.
That law empowers Ofcom – the UK's communications regulator – to direct how platforms handle content officials classify as misinformation.
Baroness Kidron helped deliver it.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate openly acknowledged its role. Chief Executive Imran Ahmed told Britain's House of Lords that CCDH had championed the Online Safety Act since its inception and served as the first witness before the parliamentary committee that reviewed it.
The House Judiciary Committee found that the European Commission's own content-moderation handbook incorporated CCDH's platform policy recommendations.
When Jim Jordan's Judiciary Committee investigated CCDH's role in federal censorship collusion and requested documents in 2023, CCDH refused to cooperate voluntarily.
Jordan had to issue a subpoena.
Effort's research shows more than $17 million flowing into the Institute for Strategic Dialogue from the U.S. State Department, the European Union, and several UK government ministries.
ISD also sits on Spotify's Safety Advisory Council and participates in Google's Trusted Flagger program for YouTube – where its content reports receive priority review over those filed by ordinary users.
Reset Tech Action, the U.S. arm of a UK-based coalition, dropped $1.35 million into federal and state lobbying between 2024 and mid-2026. Of the six bills it pushed, four overlapped directly with 5Rights' own legislative agenda.
This is not 21 states independently arriving at the same conclusion about internet safety.
It is one portable foreign lobby – and the network that wrote these laws is already embedded in YouTube's flagging system and Spotify's safety council, with a verified name to attach to every piece of speech they want removed.
Once digital ID is law, every site visit is tied to a real identity. That is the censorship infrastructure.
The Foreign Agents Registration Act was created in 1938 to stop exactly this: foreign organizations shaping American law while hiding who they are from the legislators they lobby.
It did not stop them. It just made the paperwork more than a year late.
Sources:
- Frank Bergman, "British Globalists Are Quietly Pushing Digital ID Laws Across America," Slay News, August 15, 2026.
- Staff, "The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America," Effort, August 2026.
- Staff, "Report: British Groups Push Age Verification Bills in 21 US States," Reclaim the Net, August 2026.
- "Chairman Jordan Subpoenas the Center for Countering Digital Hate," House Judiciary Committee, August 30, 2023.
