@EUCommission Age limits require age verification, and age verification means bureaucratically identifying everyone online. Everyone.

That's transparently incompatible with the goal and implementation of the GDPR, and will impose massive regulatory burden and risk on internet services, who'll have to handle PII they might never have otherwise had to handle.

And for what? So we'll all be fake USians when signing up for things, to avoid giving Peter Thiel our passports? Lose the GDPR entirely?

@diemkay Missing Alt Text: A chart plotting Tech "Think Tanks" against major tech companies, indicating which think tanks are funded by whom. Google funds all of them. Five "Think Tanks" receive funding from all of the charted big tech companies: Bruegel, Centre for European Reform, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), and Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE