Full title: EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification checks

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Ironically, kids might still get around the new restriction by using a virtual private network (VPN) connection, which virtually positions the computer in another country, at the time of signing up.

    This is just going to be one long pointless game of whackamole and as effective as Prohibition was in the US.

    • Séimhe (sé / é)@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      The US claim they are going after the VPN companies now too. Of course it could be all lies and deflection like most things they say now.