The role played in the US by grassroot conservative bigots have no equivalent in the EU.
The push for authoritarianism seems to come purely from above. My intuition, from personal anecdotes, is that after 30 years of widening gap between the haves and the have nots, the haves are increasingly terrified buy their own populations.
Unfortunately these bigots are also active in europe. Especially that org from Ashley Kutcher. They have several EU Commission members actively listening to them. This is where all the ChatControl idiocy comes from.
That seems odd considering that the extreme right is the one using social media most to influence the voters with disinformation. I would expect the extreme right to be completely opposed to age controls on social media.
Porn is not such a big deal but social media flooded by Russian/Chinese/American propaganda is destabilizing our societies. The least we can do is try to keep our youth from losing their minds over it.
Age verification is not a conservative talking point in Europe. I live in Western Europe where conservatives simply do not exist and the government is trying to push an age verification solution too.
I live in Western Europe and conservatives were ruling the in my country until one of them blew up the government (over a typical topic that conservatives are obsessing over).
Apologies if it isn't, but since this is a new account only writing anti-EU comments so far, seems like troll army astro turfing. (I think it's worth calling that out, since we don't need HN poisoned by that stuff.)
