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EU age verification app announced to protect children online (www.dw.com)
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[–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I don't believe this is an honest question. They aren't age-gating, they're checking IDs of everyone so they know exactly who is saying everything online, and can easily persecute opposing viewpoints. The excuse is kids, they don't give a shit about kids.

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Where have you read that this is about checking everyone’s ID?

    They are specifically building an anonymous system for verifying age required to buy to products and access media that we already check ID for (not anonymously, but distributed) in physical stores.

    Most countries don’t have age gates for accessing social media and, under the EU system proposed for the EU, if they did, this system is exactly providing a method of verifying a user’s age without knowing who the user is. So it’s literally the opposite of what you claim it to be.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Lmao. Anonymous system my ass. You trust the government to do that? And pray tell how the government is going to implement id verification on os? It's such a stupid idea. How are you even going to enforce that? And even if it gets implemented, what's stopping a kid from using an adult's device to bypass it?

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    The EU age verification system, of which I’m talking and of which the OP was about, is not baked into the OS. That might be the case in the US. I’m lucky I don’t live there. And this discussion here is about the EU system, not the US one.

    Your ISP has a record over every single website you’ve visited and your payment provider knows 99% of all purchases you’ve made and your phone knows where you’ve been at all times. Your threshold for having to trust that laws prevent wanton use of all this information doesn’t shift with anonymous age gating.

    Frankly the concerns you display in the post reveal to me that you’ve not spent a great detail looking into what’s actually being proposed.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Why doesn't EU investigate criminals and pedos with questionable search queries and website history? The corpos have the data of every individual. It was never about protecting the children in the first place. Otherwise they'd be solving the root of the problem instead of using such half measures.

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