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This has nothing to do with age verification, but everything to do with identifying users on various services. They can compell the providers of said services to give them access to how each, now identified, user is using the service. Since a lot of our lives are digital, this is a major transfer of power from the people to a select few.

A question I have is who voted for this? I sure didn't.

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It's called representative democracy and it's been in crisis for some years now.

It's so indirect it's hard to even consider it a form of democracy.

I don't.

The European Commission is unelected. The European parliament can't choose which laws it wants to vote on. This is a simulacrum of democracy.

> They can compell the providers of said services to give them access to how each, now identified, user is using the service.

The whole point of this is that they can't, which is unlike the systems they had used before. The only information that the service provider receives is that an age check has passed.

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