This is the first part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part two...

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly expresses that minors have rights to freedom of expression and access to information online, as well as the right to privacy.

These rights would be steamrolled by age verification requirements.

  • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The point of an age verification system is to make sure that certain classes of people cannot access certain categories of information.

    Is there really no problem there?

    • MrAlagos@feddit.itEnglish
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      1 day ago

      In case of minors and pornography, most societies have come to the conclusion that there is no problem with that.

      If some people want to fight this, they should fight this issue (this would be very much a losing battle in all places in my opinion), not age verification systems, because the second would not exist without laws like the first one.