⚑️πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί NEW - Ursula von der Leyen confirms that there will be a European app for authentication on social media. The European Union will therefore have access to the ID cards of all Europeans, who will be required to present them in order to log in to social media. Von der Leyen states that this app is β€œeasy to use” and β€œprotects privacy.” She explains that it will be like a permit required for children to access social media. A bill will be proposed after the summer break.

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This looks cool! Afraid it will kill Nostr though when everyone leaves here to sign up.
Can't wait for it, finally an easy way into social media. Nostr is so hard and doesn't protect my privacy.
Yes exactly, just like what happened with CEX leaving EU recently. That forced a lot of people to (finally) self custody and search better solutions.
It's only a matter of time till my prediction comes true. Mandatory Bluesky accounts, all your thoughts are uploaded via neuralink. If you get banned on Bluesky you get executed.
They learned from COVID lockdown that modern Western frogs can't jump
Sure sure Ursula.. but children can decide to change their genders by kindergarten? That's perfectly OK? Utter BS. EU wishes to police the speech. Of everyone. Bring on the pan-opticon. The Eye of Sauron.
and by doing this, the EU falls further and further behind the rest of the world. Their legislation has already killed their economy and destroyed any hope of having companies that can actually go head to head with China or the USA. Their desire to have totalitarian control over their population will result in them looking like Soviet Russia without even good vodka!
The internet is going to become more fragmented. They want to limit communication between people from different places, that's a big part of it. They don't want Europeans being exposed to the rest of us and vice versa.
Yes, that's very true. Local intelligence or even police use a language barrier to separate people. It pretty visible in a few places. Pushing for local language only is not natural. But maybe it starts to fail as a separating barrier and they have to come up with something else
Now listen people, because AGAIN no one will listen in another case, and it will take ANOTHER 5 YEARS for anyone to start noticing: HARDWARE ATTESTATION - including google attestation is an extremely dangerous solution. Way more than age checks - don't ignore it the same way you ignored the possible age checks for years because it will end 1337 times more worse than this. You've been warned multiple times already.
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