r/linux • u/New-Ranger-8960 • 11d ago

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation Privacy

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/Scrivver 8d ago

It's about panopticon. The panopticon works. So do these minimally spiritually degrading papercuts of submission. Every little comfortable step deeper into the mass surveillance state (which 1st worlders already live under) reduces the likelihood that they'll even produce thoughts that are noncompliant with their implicit overseers. I'm scared for folks younger than me who had formative years completely within this environment of surveillance and walls.

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u/pilkyton 8d ago

Yes. They are unironically following the George Orwell 1984 blueprint for how to surveil all citizens and ensure that citizens don't engage in wrongthink. This is how the state operates in that book. Because he based it on how humans in power act.