It's just an excuse to create a "papers please" internet.

Sadly I have little faith their proposal will be reasonable. It‘ll either be too soft or asking for unreasonable measures like broad identification and face IDs.

Hah, so they too prefer to police minors instead of companies.

instead of curbing far right media.

Like cigarettes, yeah it's worse for kids but it's not good for adults either. I'd rather see more restrictions placed in the companies making the toxic products than age verification based systems.

Curb it only on Thursdays?

I would rather see them ban all content with minors. Why do kids have to upload anything on the internet? Let platforms enforce it on their end.

This lady loves rules

I have not looked into the sources myself but a Swedish podcsst called "Bli säker podden" that is about cybersecurity had an episode where they talked about this, and it was menetioned the age verification is for big corps with a certain amount of users only, which could mean we are getting a lot of people to the federated social media.

Maybe with this knowledge we can do something about it and get more people away from Meta and Twitter platforms.

About time Europe treated addictive feeds like the product design problem they are. The real test is whether this becomes meaningful age appropriate access with privacy preserving checks, or just another glorious cookie banner where everyone clicks »I’m 18« and TikTok solemnly salutes.