Why else would it be introduced? If they don’t plan to lock down the entire internet, the age verification is useless. It could be security theater but it receives full media attention. So it is important. What else but war could be so important that it demands so much power over civil liberty?

This is going to happen. The European age verification and messenger surveillance are preparations to control any remaining opposition for that war.

Why did you agree to my argument that they are essentially the same?

Sure, that’s all obviously true

Sure, that’s all obviously true. But Europe’s situation is still not “essentially the same as” China’s.

Of course, the law is not active yet. Once activated, what would be different?

If you can’t verify your age you can’t access those services. That’s the same as

Chinese citizens may soon find themselves dependent on government-issued digital credentials for even the most basic freedoms

The thing that Europe cannot do is associate users to accounts in a convenient way. But everybody who doesn’t use a VPN can be identified by their IP address and everybody else in the same way TOR users can be identified.

Add the planned access to messenger service E2E encryption as well as the planned huge military spending and we must be heading towards funny times.

Children can be protected by other means.

Meanwhile the EU is creating consensus for an anonymous age verification infrastructure.

The social networks won’t know the names of the users but the EU will be able to block people from accessing all social networks by blocking their age verification account.

It’s essentially the same.

Like the other comment says, it must be the New START treaty, but I am no expert. It seems like it’s a Russian excuse for their carelessness however some parts of the treaty were respected so I think Putin and Trump had some topics to clarify.

On 21 February 2023, Russia suspended its participation in New START.[8] However, it did not withdraw from the treaty, and clarified that it would continue to abide by the numerical limits in the treaty.

On 2 June 2024, the United States revoked visas of Russian nuclear inspectors, describing this step as a “lawful countermeasure” to Russia’s “ongoing violations” of the treaty.

So some parts of the treaty must have been considered active.

On 1 June 2025, Ukraine claimed to have destroyed more than a dozen nuclear strategic bombers, including two Tu-160, at airfields deep inside Russia with swarms of small drones. The bombers were still parked not in nuclear strike protective bunkers, but in open-air, according to obligations under the New START Treaty with the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_START

He can legally be president for a third term

Has the law already been changed?

The issue is that because of nuclear treaties between USA and Russia, Russia is required to park their nuclear bombers out in the open. If USA wants Russia to keep them out in the open, they had to make a good argument.

if it were the same, you wouldn’t have been allowed to make this comment.

It works both ways. Is OP allowed to make the comment because he is more priviliged or because he has less power and is less of a threat?

Remember the McCarthy era. There can be more restrictions if needed.

Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, the existence of these tracking codes became public only in 2004.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

Thanks for letting me know.

Seems that I am out of my depth because I cannot imagine what France could do militarily. I would assume that any ship would be vulnerable if Chinese aircraft missiles have a longer range than the French ones so that France cannot defend their ships with their aircrafts.

Not sure if that’s the reason but I heard that gnu was chosen because gnus, the animal, are essentially one herd spread across Africa. A gnu that loses its particular herd, e.g. while crossing a river, can join any other. Supposedly that’s not the same for other herd animals.

Beauty. It gives everybody the illusion that they can decide or at least criticize everything. We will end with an unstable system where control becomes impossible and things collapse.

Has Pakistan shot down the French jets? India hasn’t confirmed those losses. If true then France doesn’t have much power to project.

On 7 May, Indian and Pakistani fighter jets battled for over an hour. Pakistan claimed that three Dassault Rafales, one MiG-29, one Su-30MKI fighter jet, and one Israeli-manufactured IAI Heron UAV belonging to the Indian Air Force were shot down. If true, would first time that a French-origin Dassault Rafale has been lost in combat, reportedly having been shot down by the Chinese-origin Chengdu J-10. This, along with the performance of Chinese-origin PL-15E missiles in the combat, reportedly gained global attention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_India–Pakistan_conflict

All the downvotes, what’s wrong with my comment?

Tankies perceive the old Tibet like the West perceives Iran, as an abusive Theocracy. That changes the evaluation.

How much has this to do with Michelle and Barak Obama studying at Harvard? Why is no other university involved?

Is rumored that the Target self check cameras show you the most unflattering image of yourself so that you will want to avoid stealing and getting that photo on the news.

https://feddit.org/post/12890428

Mobile phones constantly reveal the location to the cell towers. There is no need for an app. This is just mind games.

Google can predict traffic jams because they know the location of everybody. Nobody cares about tracking as long as they can ignore it. The app makes ignoring difficult.

join-lemmy.org could show the posts from all, with a big join button at the top. The introduction page can be shown if somebody presses the join button.

There is one server implementation that shows it to its users. I forgot its name though.