The EU is rolling out its official age verification app according to the joint statement issued by EU President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen [emphasis added]:
The aim of the app is allegedly to “protect children”.
The idea of “protecting kids online” wasn’t even mentioned when the pilot schemes for the EU Digital Identity Wallet were launched two years ago.
So, the solution actually predates the problem in this instance, that’s how transparently manipulative this propaganda has become.
It is plainly obviously to anyone who has been paying attention that the rapid and widespread adoption of age-verification laws around the world has nothing to do with protecting kids, and everything to do with ending online anonymity for adults and children alike
Softening the public on digital identity plans that have been in place for years.
Of course, none of the mainstream coverage mentions any part of this broader agenda, they just follow the party line, as ever.
Time Magazine regurgitates von der Leyen’s “no more excuses line”, and offers only a cursory explanation of what the app does. Politico does exactly the same.
In their headline Deutsche Welle don’t even have the integrity to put “protect children online” in quotation marks:
No qualification or interrogation of the claims made by authority – it is state stenographer journalism of the worst kind.
CNN disingenuously refer to it as a “sort of” digital identity card:
But this is both deliberate understatement and total misrepresentation of the system.
Officially, the way the system will work is that you will download the app and allow it to scan your drivers license, passport or even connect to your bank or education records, and that app will then interact with social media platforms or other digital services on your behalf.
It’s not a “digital identity card” at all, it’s a state-issued filter interposed between you and the digital world.
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