Once you realize it’s not “age verification”, but actually “identity verification”, then it’s easy to understand that the real goal is “papers, please” for the entire internet.

[rythur@mastodon.social]

@mhoye

We're being bullied by neurotic creeps with too much money

[flashmobofone@mastodon.art]

@mhoye No it isn't.

They already have all of your info. We know this because the FBI just inadvertently revealed it by producing video evidence publicly that wasn't supposed to exist.

They have your info and they are feeding it to your government freely and without a warrant.

ID verification is just a simple means of proving you confirmed someone isn't a child.

[fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de]

@mhoye the "goal" of a system is what it does. no matter what the actual intent was.

[txtx@mastodon.social]

@dalias @mhoye Facebook & X are anarchist/anti fascist? I don't agree.

[txtx@mastodon.social]

@passenger @mhoye Those worst people are mostly bots or fake. Rarely are they using their real names. ICE wear masks.

The ones who go public: they should be in court facing anti hate laws. But instead they're protected because they don't even live in my country. X and Facebook need to be banned where I am to fix this.

[charogg@mastodon.social]

@FlashMobOfOne @mhoye According to your logic, why they would need to check it isn't a child if they already know?

[brouhaha@mastodon.social]

@mhoye
Your papers are not in order.

[chuckmcmanis@chaos.social]

@mhoye Yup, they are tired of not being able to tell whose a dog and whose a human on the Internet

[phogl@social.cologne]

@mhoye not defending the age verification at all or any of that shit...
But at least they designed in Europe the upcoming EUDI Wallet (digital wallet) they now want to use for that in a way that you can for example just disclose "yup, I'm over 18" not more of your personal information

[jdb_env@mastodon.social]

@txtx @passenger @mhoye
People need to understand the harm done to people and society by gafam.

The only account I had was on linkedin, to have professional visibility.
But this too is populated by [boosted] "influencers" and "followers".

My way to connect with ppl makes all this boring to use.

I find mastodon here more convenient to link with ppl having the same interests.

Not following and not leading.
No ads. Perfect for me.

Facebook : fuck off, I have enough friends.

[txtx@mastodon.social]

@passenger @mhoye The UK/Brexit are perfect examples of foreign dictators influencing citizens via social media disinformation campaigns, anonymous & bot accounts etc.

This is not something I want to see further replicated anywhere in the EU.

Being an 'anti-facist' on X is a contradiction. It's like hating on Mickey Mouse at Disneyland.

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@brouhaha @mhoye can you explain this gap in your social media posting history?

You seem to have forgotten to inform us of this e-mail you’ve been using since 2015…

[axel_hartmann@digitalcourage.social]

@europlus @brouhaha @mhoye - with the proposed US visa / visa-waiver requirements, any of these would invalidate your "immigration status" as a visitor, putting you at real risk of indefinite incarceration at an ICE concentration camp.

[spdrnl@sigmoid.social]

@mhoye I heard thatPeter Thiel's #palantir is behind the Discord age verification deal.

It's dystopian, and their closing in.

#EU stop the deals with these people. If in doubt, read 'IBM and the Holocaust'.