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The Age-Verification Trap: Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection

Waydell D. Carvalho · · via Hacker News · privacy society politics

Age verification is obviously a “casus belli” that a bunch of (mostly Western, mostly European) leaders adopt because they realise the next 10-20 years will be marked by having to lead from positions of deep unpopularity.

Brussels though, chooses the path of authoritarianism and crushing dissent, to unite in a “totalitarian war union” (to borrow from Varoufakis), instead of understanding the reason for their deep unpopularity and reforming.

Moreover, Europe needs a post-EU future.