Internet age verification kills anonymity and risks your data. It's a terrible idea, and the fact the UK and the most conservative parts of the US were the first to embrace it should tell you that. The EU shouldn't let this bad idea infect you. https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115621195342074414
You shouldn't need a driver's license to speak.
@mcc
You have *always* needed an account to speak on the internet, that the rules to keep that account become explicit rather than implicit is in itself no great affront to human rights.
The idea that you are anonymous on the internet without taking special technical steps is dangerous, one shouldn't encourage that idea by pretending that this one system is the only important threat to privacy in a world where almost everyone has a google, meta and tiktok account.
Also, I'm surprised that you want to import the "infection" imagery into this policy discussion. An infection implies there's a healthy body that's become sick, and invites talk about cleansing the body of this foreign element to save it... not entirely neutral images without any history to them.
