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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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It has very nearly got a majority several times. I'm sure that with some media manipulation (eg milking an incident) it will be easily pushed through.
Imagine if the Dutroux scandal would happen now. They'd jump on that to push all kinds of monitoring on everyone. Even though this would not be prevented by it in any way (and in fact that all happened long before WhatsApp even existed)
"Several times"? There were two votes to date.
The only "majority" we've been hearing about were the "these governments support this idea" maps, which have minimal bearing on how the EU Parliament actually votes.
Correct me if I'm wrong.