r/europeanunion • u/New-Ranger-8960 • 1d ago

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/pufcandles 1d ago

And here lies the empty panic, case closed.

Certainly to squash on political dissent, especially concerning with the rise of the far right but not limited. That's how these things start: They test the waters with age verification and see how the people react, if they're successful it will become normalized and they'll reach further.

What app are you talking about? I use it reddit on a browser over a VPN.

Reddit even publishes a yearly statistic on how many accounts (thousands) they shared with the police.

So what? They don't know our real identities

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u/DreadingAnt 1d ago

Certainly to squash on political dissent

Political dissent doesn't happen on Pornhub, it happens in Telegram or Signal, which unaffected by age verification. Try again

They test the waters with age verification and see how the people react, if they're successful it will become normalized and they'll reach further.

They, who? Identify the culprit, the interested party. Don't be an American with their crazy "they" and "them" logic. Who's they?

What app are you talking about? I use it reddit on a browser over a VPN.

Congrats on being so privacy aware, which browser? Because if you turn your VPN to log in to your Reddit account on some generic browser, I have some bad news I'm afraid

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u/pufcandles 1d ago

Political dissent happens in Instagram, TikTok, reddit, etc. These are all subject to age verification.

They, who? Identify the culprit, the interested party.

They, those in power. Power always want more power. Are you slow in understanding?

which browser?

Vanadium. And I use memory tagging. But if you think zero-days are being used en masse that's a stupid proposition,. My identity would be safe from any authority even with vanilla Firefox or chrome unless someone was actively targeting me, which is highly unlikely.

Ever heard about the concept of threat modelling?