European politicians supporting age verification deserve an earful of criticism.

If you don’t like it you can use the Wikipedia link.

Yeah I think it’s a good time to hang out at the pub instead

What does that have to do with this conversation?

Age verification for Jan Mayen! Oh the horror!

This is why forced digital ids must be opposed every step of the way.

It’s like saying “It’s good that android is degrading now I can finally quit using smartphones meanwhile the government and corporations makes having one more mandatory.”

While these laws continue to provoke criticism from scientists, tech experts, and digital rights advocates, Proton aims to ensure that the public remains properly informed by providing timely updates as new legislation advances.

Clicking on any country reveals information about the progress of legislative proposals in that region, with the tool offering a detailed overview of the different approaches adopted by governments regarding age verification legislation.

In Europe, for example, 18 countries have already implemented or proposed age verification requirements targeting adult content. Fifteen of these have already introduced measures specifically aimed at social media platforms.

He is not alone in holding these views. Many privacy advocates and digital rights organizations argue that current age verification methods encourage the growth of surveillance while compromising users’ privacy.

Critics also point to past failures in ensuring the security of sensitive data. Breaches involving Discord’s third-party age verification service affecting over 70,000 users or the EU’s age verification app, allegedly hacked in two minutes, are just a few examples of the scale of the problem.

The picture looks even bleaker when one considers that many experts from youth organizations and children’s charities seem to agree that such methods could have harmful effects on young people browsing the Internet.

As opposition continues to grow — from scientists calling for the suspension of mandatory age verification to gaming groups and digital rights activists joining forces to prevent the erosion of Internet freedom — Yen argues that alternatives are possible.

Don’t let the tankie triad see this. They will claim it’s “racist” while being silent on China favouring domestic brands.

Alexander Hanff, survivor of child sexual abuse and privacy advocate, clarifies: “As a survivor I relied on confidential communications to tell my story and find justice for 28 schoolboys—myself included—resulting in the conviction of multiple offenders. We survivors need privacy, because without it we lose our voice. Chat Control was not created to protect children. It was about Big Tech companies like Meta or Google wanting access to our data for profiteering, and states attempting to expand mass surveillance. The EU Commission has wasted five years and millions of euros on algorithms that cannot protect children and were never meant to. This money should have been diverted to real policing, causal research, and support for survivors, millions of whom have never received any support at all.”

Video is from 2023. However the Signal client Pigeon is still being updated with the last update being released on 22/06/2026

Rip out all american vendors.

Ukraine is the key to building the federal european army.

Apparently Punkt phones have locked bootloaders 😭

Check the link under the post.

Can you elaborate on that?

Too bad he’s got 50% voting rights.

Here’s another resource!

https://vpn.techlore.tech/

IVPN offers a warrant canary and is situated in Gibraltar and the territory has their own variant of GDPR.