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Encroaching crypto-fascism. A perverse desire for control, because what's power without control and what's a politician without power?
Or sometimes it is a real desire to be seen as tough on crime without noticing that the people who want age-verification/identity-document-duplication include some of the biggest criminals.
Maybe im not well versed in European politics enough but I don't see the same level appearing in other European or Anglo countries? Like even in the USA we have death squads now but I can still use a VPN... Age restrictions is usually due to religious voters
Read up on Chat Control.
Ah yeah forgot about that, surely the EU could never be corrupted
On what grounds, and isn't it just a pretext like here?