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You misunderstand. The child protection angle is just a cover story. The actual reason for this legislation is to ban anonymous publishing; to ensure that every post on the internet can be linked back to an identity for retaliation.

Verified anonymous age credentials don’t allow for this, so they don’t matter.

The negative privacy implications are the primary features of these laws, not a bug. It is intentional.

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> The child protection angle is just a cover story. The actual reason for this legislation is to ban anonymous publishing; to ensure that every post on the internet can be linked back to an identity for retaliation.

> Verified anonymous age credentials don’t allow for this, so they don’t matter.

> The negative privacy implications are the primary features of these laws, not a bug. It is intentional.

This is it. Perfect.

The amount of money pouring into surveillance of all kinds (led by companies like palantir and so many others). It's surveillance capitalism without the capitalism.

People create these illusions about a system, about a country and will fight to the end to defend those illusions. The reality of what actually exists beneath the shiny (propagandized) surface is so much darker.

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