🇪🇺 Seeing Ursula Leyen¹ praised all day for her State of the European Union speech is upsetting to me.

🇨🇦 While closer ties to Canada sound great, it also included her brand-new digital ID verification² law, the so called "EU Kids Act"!

➕ It goes one step further than Social Media, covering video-sharing platforms, AI chatbots, AI companions, online games, software app stores and operating systems³

Europeans should fight this surveillance state law tooth and nail! #STOPEUKIDSACT

¹not sure why we still accept people using nobiliary particles such as "von der" 🤢

²or rebranded "age verification"

³ https://www.euractiv.com/news/gamers-will-have-to-prove-their-age-under-eu-kids-act/
https://www.euractiv.com/news/exclusive-von-der-leyen-to-fine-tech-companies-under-kids-act-text/

¹not sure why we still accept people using nobiliary particles such as "von der" 🤢

It's best to focus attention on the issues that matter most rather than mixing in criticisms of the noble origins of certain last names.

Ugh, fuck these terrible "think of the children" laws that curtail adult rights and enable dystopian surveillance. They're like a disease that keeps reappearing.

And I know it's just a side note but my understanding is that "von der" just translates to "of the", indicating where old names originated. It's like Robin of Locksley, aka Robin Hood; though perhaps his name was originally aristcratic, he became the enemy of parasitic nobility. So the name alone doesn't actually tell you much.