EU going full Stasi here, every citizen encouraged to report their (digital) neighbors. View quoted note →

I wonder if the cost to build support for this, deal with ongoing maintenance and reporting costs, plus paying the likely fines will be worth it for them all, or could we see some exiting the EU?

Same as with banks: de-risking is the key to keeping this cheap. If someone doesn't like you, they mass report you and the company just closes your account. Presumably there's only fines if a company fails to act and no damages have to paid for false positives.

And - if the law requires it - they'll also send your full dossier and personal details over to law enforcement. Maybe they don't open a case on you, but now you're "in the system" and find yourself stopped and frisked more often. It's not as bad as swatting in the US though.

I guess we should thank the EU for (unwittingly) accelerating the flight to platforms like Nostr.