Comment by lern_too_spel
10 days ago
> I'm getting pretty tired of the EU trying to shove internet-crippling regulations down my throat
And I'm getting tired of people pulling out pitchforks without reading anything. This is how democracies end up electing people like Trump. There are no regulations to require age verification here. The EU is simply giving guidelines for implementing harmonized age verification across the EU if any member states or companies that do business in the EU want to use it instead of making people scan ID cards like they currently do and making the receiver of said scans have to understand updates to the designs of the various ID cards used throughout the EU.
Oh come on. You know exactly where this is going. Porn and social media will require age verification before you can say "who voted for this?".
You know you're making a fallacious slippery slope argument here. Age verification is already a thing on the Internet, and South Korea and Texas already require age verification for those things. Providing a proof of concept for a way to do age verification without handing over your identity doesn't change public policy. The voters decide what needs age verification.
If you're concerned about totalitarianism, you should be more concerned that Texas required people to upload their IDs to access porn sites because that was the only method available.