Comment by rkagerer
10 days ago
What if I refuse to buy a device with a secure enclave that I don't have access to? Am I now censored from a chunk of the internet?
Is the EU essentially foisting a someone-else-owns-your-keys regime onto their citizens?
The law designed this as a privacy-friendly and convenient alternative to traditional identity verification, and stipulates usage should be optional.
Without the wallet, you'll be forced to jump through the same hoops as you're doing right now. Depending on what EU country you live in, that can be anything between "no real difference" to "making an appointment to exchange stamps on documents".
Please point out where the age verification law says it's optional to verify someone's age
Or which hoops you mean we have to currently jump through to access 12/14/16/18+ sites
That’s not what they said. They said that when age verification is required, it is intended to be optional to use the EU digital wallet for that, and other ways are possible.
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> What if I refuse to buy a device with a secure enclave that I don't have access to? Am I now censored from a chunk of the internet?
The idea is that once you get used to that, you will get censored from all the internet.
> Is the EU essentially foisting a someone-else-owns-your-keys regime onto their citizens?
Not quite, it's the EU essentially foisting a don't-use-free-software regime onto their citizens