alt Hacker News> Since then Australia, New Zealand and the EU have introduced similar legislation
I am not aware that the EU pushed legislation onto us here in central Europe with regards to "Age Verification". I am not saying it has not happened (I simply don't know right now), but this needs a source rather than just a statement. From what I remember, local media in german critisized the UK, so it would be strange to see the same legislation suddenly come into effect here.
Also, it seems we did not really win a lot if a private company operates matrix.
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throwaway473825 • today at 2:10 AM
The EU will probably wait until the launch of a digital wallet that can do anonymous age verification. Otherwise it won't get enough political support.
> local media in german critisized the UK
That's old news, now is all about "think of the children".
This is too synchronous not to be arranged with the Commission. My vote is on Europol and Palantir lobbying.
France - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/01/31/social-m...
Spain - https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-02-04/is-16-a-goo...
Denmark - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/08/tech/denmark-children-soc...
Portugal - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/portugal-approves-restr...
Greece/Austria/Finland/Belgium/Italy also discussing.
The best one for me is Portugal, parliament approved this law all while the country is being devastated by hurricane winds and flooding with several calamity zones. They are really bringing Law into effect by maximum obfuscation.
EU anonimity online is over because ivory tower folks want to speedrun all of us into 1984.
And this is obviously just a stepping stone to mass message scanning. The revolution will not be organizable.