cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/35744452
EU parliament accepted a last minute amendment, mandating age verification for pornographic (whatever that is) content online, punishable with up to one year prison sentence.
This was rolled into a directive concerning CSAM. Because adults accessing porn need to be de-anonymised to avoid child exploitation?
I would have expected more upvotes for the end of the free internet. Do people not care or are there other reasons, e.g. everybody already accepted it?
At the same time GB seems to already demand age verification for Wikipedia. https://feddit.org/post/17205698