A lot of it is also wrangling Big Tech, which is increasingly an existential geopolitical risk.

I'm old enough to remember when the big names in social media sites decided to copy Facebook's "Real names" policy, which they added themselves for better targeted ads.

If this is an attack on free speech, the war was lost 15 years ago, even in the USA. Of course, given what's going on in the US right now, one may well respond "yes, the US did lose sometime around then".

For now though, I'd be more worried about all the verifiers leaking PII due to vibe coding and competent attackers.

So how would you protect children?

Free speech is not a concept that exist in Europe, at least not in the USA form...I dont say it as critique just as a factual statement.

Free speech as understood in the US, like rooted in the First Amendment protection against government restriction, does not have a direct legal equivalent in Europe. Most countries balance expression against other rights like dignity, public order, etc...

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