[sva_]

I am also European, not sure why that matters though.

This type of argument always sounds to me like someone was abused by their ex-partner, but now prefers their new partner who abuses them a little less.

This is a common negotiation practice in business as well as politics. You make some absolutely outrageous demand, and people protest, but then you give them the -originally planned- light version of it, and they will accept it; in light of the worse option.

There is no reason to endure this BS, hence I referenced manufacturing consent.

I sometimes can not believe how easily people allow themselves to be manipulated.

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And you can vote out "Big Tech" - by refusing to use their products. Giving up your rights to play some videogame, as GP outlined, is an absolutely sad thing to witness. There are people who fought and died for the rights we have, and we allow them to be eroded for some silly consumerism.

[vrganj]

> And you can vote out "Big Tech" - by refusing to use their products

That argument completely ignores network effects. Case in point, Twitter is, for better or worse, still where a lot of public figures post their updates and announcements. It also now randomly bans people unless they give their biometric data to an oligarch that supports right wing extremists: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1ukil0b/twitter_x_...

[sva_]

I'm not sure what that has to do with age verification or such things, and even if you don't want to use the platform directly you can use mirrors like xcancel.com or nitter.net as drop-in replacements (which I use.) I dont think that site has any age verification measures implemented that are mandated by law as of now. But I'd just stop using it if they did or if the mirrors stopped working.

All in all, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the original topic of EU being about to enforce 'age verification'.