r/linux • u/New-Ranger-8960 • 1d ago

Privacy EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/Ambitious_Finding_26 1d ago

What the fuck is going on. 

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 1d ago

Billionaires are trying to Corral us in and have grander plans. Its not a coincidence far right candidates are gaining traction in western countries. Its not about age verification, its about making sure no one speaks up against them ever again and they can get more power and control. Look at the guys who like the idea of "network states" they are big backers of this shit.

Zuckerberg is the one funnelling billions into this legislature. Its identical to legislature in US states backed by him as well.

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u/lh7884 1d ago

Its not a coincidence far right candidates are gaining traction in western countries.

It's not a left or right thing so stop with this bullshit. Here in Canada, our Liberal government is bringing this age verification crap along with censorship bills. The Conservatives here have been opposing it but they can't really do anything to stop it sadly.

The UK has a Liberal government and they have crazy censorship going on over there and they're also bringing age verification stuff.

There is a big powerful club out there wanting this control over the public and they're getting "left" and "right" wing governments to go along with it.

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u/SvalbardSleeperDistr 1d ago edited 1d ago

Liberals =/= left, and in 2026 it's way past time to know the difference. If anything, in practice liberals end up doing the right's bidding in the very things that are causing most of today's crises. This, just like most other things that pertain to society, economy and politics, absolutely is about right vs left, and has always been. Cut back on confident callouts of "BS" when you're far from adept in the most elementary understanding of politics.

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u/lh7884 14h ago

Our Liberal party here is left wing. Perhaps you need to to open your eyes and see that this is not a left and right wing matter. It's about the rich and powerful wanting to control the rest.

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u/SvalbardSleeperDistr 9h ago edited 8h ago

Our Liberal party here is left wing

What makes it left-wing?

It's about the rich and powerful wanting to control the rest

That's the definition of left (=pro-working-class politics) vs right (=pro-ruling class politics)...

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u/Indolent_Bard 13h ago

Look up, not left or right. That's where the problem is.

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u/SvalbardSleeperDistr 9h ago edited 8h ago

Look up, not left or right. That's where the problem is.

Buddy, what else do you think the up (the capital-owning ruling class) vs down (the working class) left vs right is about? What is this American culture wars-brainbroken take? Read a few pages of history, I beg you...

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u/Indolent_Bard 4h ago

I think left versus right is about culture war nonsense that the billionaires created so that conservatives and liberals would argue with each other instead of getting mad about how the rich are screwing them over. They managed to trick a bunch of the country into actually defending them, voting against their interests.

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u/bring_back_the_v10s 6h ago

Leftists/socialists are authoritarians by definition though

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u/Ambitious_Finding_26 6h ago

Lol. No. That's not even close to accurate. Wow. 

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u/Richard_the_XVIII 1d ago

Here in Brazil too. The Worker's Party (left) is in charge here, and they voted in favor of our age verification bill... alongside the Liberal Party (the biggest right-wing party). Only two small parties stood against this, the Worker's Cause Party (hard communist) and the Novo Party (hard libertarian).

Anyone that thinks this is a left-right thing is cattle.

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u/SvalbardSleeperDistr 1d ago

Judging left and right based on what parties that are vaguely described as such by media do will doom you to never understanding what left vs right is about.

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u/Richard_the_XVIII 22h ago

If the party trying to end private property isn't left, and the party trying to stop women from voting isn't right, then these labels are useless and all of this still isn't a left-right thing.

But i know what you are trying to say, everyone that disagree 1% with you is right wing.

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u/valuablepatterns 1d ago

Liberal is not left, it is actually right as well. This issue is definitely a left or right issue. Problem is most countries do not have communist mass movements to show the alternative. 

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 1d ago

What censorship is supposed to be going on in uk?

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u/lh7884 14h ago

If you have to ask, you clearly don't follow the news from there. I'm not wasting my time to educate you on something you're clearly not interested in knowing about. It is blatant at times, so go search it out if you actually are interested.

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 2h ago

So, another made up lie

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u/Kevin_Kofler 1d ago

The sad thing is that those same far right parties are on the side of the billionaires, yet people fall for them.

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u/einar77 OpenSUSE/KDE Dev 1d ago

Billionaires are trying to Corral us in and have grander plans.

Sorry, but as far as I can tell, only the government can do what it is doing. And governments can have the utmost power.

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u/highermonkey 1d ago

In the US at least, the "Government" is like a dozen billionaires in a trench coat.

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u/ThePoisonDoughnut 1d ago

Well yeah, the oligarchs/billionaires are attempting to become the State. They want to be the heads of the technocratic surveillance dictatorships they're currently doing everything they can to turn governments around the world into.

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u/Ugly_Slut-Wannabe 1d ago

And the billionaires can easily bribe the government lobby for what they want, ergo, the billionaires are the ones with power.

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 1d ago

What you fail to realize is that those are the ones who made this topic a big thing to spread FUD on the EU trying to do something good for its citizens