Why can't the EU just play the Valve card, and just do nothing and win? Fucking do nothing rather than this shit.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
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Because much of the EU ended up loving fascism and nazism after they tasted it in the 1940s. Germany and France, first and second country occupied, most curious.
In truth the UK is ahead of all of the rest. In becoming fascist.
Yeah but they also insisted so much on not being part of the EU...
Can you stop spreading disinformation? Germany is nothing as it used to be.
Man not even Romania has the level of neo-nazism that is currently present in germany. Germany is going down the wrong path AGAIN. I swear there's something in the water there and it's turning the frogs gay and making the humans stupid.
Wasn't this age verification shit started in the US? Most of the world is drifting to the right, some places even more than germany.
I'm not sure where it started initially. We may be getting from Asia even, idk
*things in the water. More than one. Not just in Germany, everywhere.
Do u even live in Germany? I do.
They literally have laws to punish people for saying that Germany supports the genocidal state of Israel. Heck, it has even been made a point here in the fediverse with the feddit.org mods. Where have you been living?
Can you provide a source for both statements?
Both feddit.org and db0 have sticky threads documenting the drama behind the second statement, which themselves also document the first statement as background.
Basically, just observe reality.
Germany is literally banning anti-Nazi symbols as we speak, not allowing for people to have flags with the symbols of the defeaters of Nazism
If kids are using VPNs, most of the time it will be because their parents made that decision for them; most aren't using their parents' credit cards to buy a VPN subscription to bypass blocks without their parents knowing. Age verification advocates argue that it puts more control in the hands of parents, but in the case of VPNs, taking that control away goes entirely against that argument.
It's not about giving parents control, or ultimately even about kids at all; people want to impose their personal morals on all of society via governmental enforcement mechanisms. Social media platforms are promoting it because age verification is beneficial to them as a legally-mandated anti-bot mechanism, increasing their advertising revenue by guaranteeing user suitability for advertisers.
Age verification is beneficial to social media because they get their grasping hands on our personal information. They allow bots on their platforms, they only take down the ones the government and the oligarchy tell them to.
I need a tshirt with that text
Even more of the reason to need a VPN.
The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has warned that virtual private networks (VPNs) are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems, describing the trend as “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing.”
So a warning about just that. So the EU did not and neither did EPRS warn, they did in fact not call VPNs a loophole that needs closing, which would include any VPN.
That said, watch out for slippery slopes!
Funny, seeing as EU itself is a loophole in democracy.
Age verification is such a joke on multiple levels
I don’t see how this could be easily enforced if every website uses encryption. Once it’s encrypted it’s pretty much impossible for anyone to identify what’s what.
You should talk to the people in Russia right now. They could tell you a thing, or two about VPN blockage, and traffic filtering.
You't see how what could be easily enforced?
HTTPS and VPN have very little to do with each other. The source and target of the communications are still quite clear that you can see that the source and destination are the VPN instead of an end user.
From a large corporate website or a network provider standpoint VPNs stick out like a sore thumb. Hell, we can detect tor and I2P nodes, and those actually, take work to differentiate.