Halt die Fresse Zensursula.

Oh boy. I'm not going to verify my age fucking ever, no matter the compromises. Fuck them.

We sadly have to make the dark web and so called "hidden" Internet's the norm.

I've found documents, which alongside all the flowery language of protecting the children, states in section 2.3 that providers are obliged to perform age verification upon account creation, relying on "the age verification tool" (which I assume is the EU Digital Identity Wallet).

So if these hypocrites could just pause patting themselves on the back, and for once, explain that the default experience, for at least large online platforms, is one that is also considered "appropriate" for children of all ages; and therefore extremely limiting for adults. Well, unless you just integrate your government issued ID into a wallet, that (at least locally) creates links between it and your accounts (you might want to keep anonymous).

There's also a lot of decent points that are being made, but which could easily be viewed separate from the identity-gating of the "open" internet. An age-bracket, based on a local, self-reported, password-protected 'date of birth' field, would be more than sufficient, but instead the EU chooses to fundamentally distrusts its citizens, while asking for unreasonable levels of trust in return. And similar to Google's reCAPTCHA, I don't even have, nor have desires to have, an iOS or Android smartphone that supports the application.

I hope Linux gets a pass like in California

¹not sure why we still accept people using nobiliary particles such as "von der" 🤢

It's best to focus attention on the issues that matter most rather than mixing in criticisms of the noble origins of certain last names.

Ugh, fuck these terrible "think of the children" laws that curtail adult rights and enable dystopian surveillance. They're like a disease that keeps reappearing.

And I know it's just a side note but my understanding is that "von der" just translates to "of the", indicating where old names originated. It's like Robin of Locksley, aka Robin Hood; though perhaps his name was originally aristcratic, he became the enemy of parasitic nobility. So the name alone doesn't actually tell you much.