Comment by rdm_blackhole

A while ago, when the topic of the EU digital ID was brought up, I said clearly that this was going to be shit-show and that the intent was going to use this as tool to muzzle the population.

It turns out I was right. This is the intent. First require digital ID to access content/post anything on social media, then make it impossible to use said ID outside of the walled garden of Android and Apple, then tie this digital identity to your real world ID and make sure it can be revoked at anytime by the powers that be.

Bonus point, make sure everything you say or do is stored for unlimited access by law enforcement to protect the democracy(TM) or protect the children(TM).

If that is not a slippery slope, then I don't know what it is.

I also pointed out that creating a database of everyone in the EU containing a lot of PII in terms of religious preferences, sexual preferences and so on is a the stupidest idea that anyone could have considering that this tool could be used by the next parties in power to hunt down political/religious opponents.

Nobody can say that they did not know.