This has nothing to do with protecting children
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2026
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It will help the pedophile class and Israeli backed oligarchs mass surveil us more effectively
Wrong. This is to violate everyone's rights and target children. This is fucking abhorrent and needs to be stopped.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2044718576485953536/vid/avc1/996x2160/hyLmEHaGr6DltAA6.mp4
Apparently it's already exposing sensitive user data and can be bypassed.
Damage children*. Let's be honest, it's quite clear that hiding nudity, sexual education or porn from children is generally damaging in the long term as that tends to come with development of mental disorders and weird fetishes like voyeur or sexually abusing women on trains
If they are so dead set on protecting children, I suggest starting with:
Gaza Strip and the West Bank (Palestine) Ukraine Sudan Myanmar Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Syria Yemen Ethiopia Afghanistan Haiti Niger Mali Burkina Faso
Zuks wallet will do just fine in the mean time
Can we stop pretend they give a single fuck about kids?
Edit: poor choice of words. Thats the only thing they give kids.
What a relief that would be. "We are compromising your personal rights with protecting children as a cover, children safety has nothing to do with it, in fact we don't give a single fuck about anything but revenue. It sounds better to save children than revenue"
Fucking cunts won't stop. Next, it's gonna be chat control 3.0 again.
Who do we need to send to the guillotine?
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The pedophile class is tightening the noose
I get my porn from illegal download sites that aren't interested in age-verification.
Like all Prohibition Policies, this is only going to push people toward more illegal outlets, which demonstrate more morality than the legal ones.
Or, as is the case with a lot of sex work, push people into more dangerous situations.
I don't use apps from official software installation sources. I will boycott any site or service that asks me for unnecessary information.
Until you can't because they will deploy this absolutely everywhere to "protect the children" from whatever real or imaginary threat.
It will be banking that is used as the wedge for this. You'll have to use an approved device / OS / App to get access to the banking system. To protect the children.
I use the bank web site, with a hardware TAN generator. If no bank offers that option you can use a dedicated device that is used just for that. My bank's app works on Graphene OS though.
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If this is not the most crooked EU Comission ever, it's a pretty close second.
The motives are irrelevant. This will destroy the internet as we know it and disempower citizens. I can't help but wonder if the empowerment LLMs may have to an individual is terrifying leaders into an authoritarian mindset, finally demanding to be able to know and track what we do online, everywhere we do it. This is about protecting their ability to rule, not children from harm.
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From my understanding this age verification app seems to be based on the age verification blueprint they have been working on for a while now, which is supposed to be part of the European "digital wallet"
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-verification
From my understanding it works as follows:
- There will be a central "authority", with which you can identify
- This authority will provide you with tokens indicating you are 18+ (or whatever age verfication you may need)
- These tokens are stored locally, and contain no identifying information other than a simple "is this guy 18+?"
- You can use these tokens to verify age with a website that requires age verification
This solution does seemingly address my two greatest concern with online age verficiation:
- You cannot trust the website, so they only get the information they need. They don't get any identifiable information
- You cannot trust the authority, so they don't get to know for which websites and for what reason you request 18+ tokens
Assuming that this blueprint is followed, it seems like a decent approach at online age verification.
I get why this sounds better than websites directly collecting IDs, but I think it still understates the problem. Even if the site only sees “18+”, the system still begins with strong identity proofing somewhere upstream. So this is not really anonymous access, it is identity-based access with a privacy layer on top.
The bigger issue is centralization. You still need trusted issuers, approved apps, approved standards, and authorities deciding who can participate. That means users are being asked to trust a centralized framework not to expand, not to abuse its power, and not to fail. History gives us no reason to be relaxed about that.
I am also skeptical of the privacy promises. These systems are always presented in their ideal form, but real-world implementations involve metadata, logging, renewal, compliance rules, vendors, and future policy changes. “The website does not know who you are” is only one small part of the privacy question.
So even in the best-case version, this is still dangerous because it normalizes the idea that access to lawful online content should depend on credentials issued inside a centrally governed identity ecosystem. Today it is age verification. Tomorrow it is broader permissioned access to the internet. That is why I do not see this as a decent compromise, but as infrastructure for future control.
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bad title, this isnt about protecting kids online
this isnt about protecting kids online
It never is, but they always try to sell unpopular things as "protecting the kids".
How about being a fucking parent instead of letting the government do it?
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It's for the CHILDREN, you COMMIE!
Nnnnnoooooooooo
Et tu, Bruté?
Ewww gross. Fuck age verification
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