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1ID checks run on the EUâs digital identity infrastructure.</p><p class="mt-1 text-base leading-relaxed text-text-secondary">For account creation on social media and video platforms, providers must use exclusively an âEU age verification solutionâ based on electronic attestations under the EU digital identity rules. European Digital Identity Wallets are automatically recognised.</p></li><li class="border-l-2 border-accent-blue pl-5"><p class="font-bold text-white">Age checks move into the device.</p><p class="mt-1 text-base leading-relaxed text-text-secondary">App stores must assess the age of their users, and operating systems are to pass usersâ age signals on to online services.</p></li></ul></section><figure class="sharp-card flex w-full flex-col gap-4 p-6 text-left sm:p-8"><blockquote class="flex flex-col gap-4 font-display text-base leading-relaxed text-text-primary normal-case sm:text-lg"><p>âThe Commissionâs age verification app, although later hastily presented as only a demo, was cracked within hours of its launch. Forcing mandatory age verification and digital ID on everyone not only creates a surveillance system any authoritarian would be proud of, it also does nothing to protect children better. The natives of the online world will be the first to circumvent any bans, while all of us lose our anonymity, all for the benefit of Big Tech, which can keep its toxic algorithms unchanged and will get even more personal profiles of everyone.â</p></blockquote><figcaption class="text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.2em] text-text-muted">Markéta Gregorová, MEP (Czech Pirate Party, Greens/EFA)</figcaption></figure><figure class="sharp-card flex w-full flex-col gap-4 p-6 text-left sm:p-8"><blockquote class="flex flex-col gap-4 font-display text-base leading-relaxed text-text-primary normal-case sm:text-lg"><p>âAdults who cannot or will not prove their age lose accounts they have used for years. This is an age checkpoint in front of the entire internet. Once every service must know whether you are an adult, the infrastructure to know who you are is only one step away. Today it checks age. Tomorrow the same system can check anything else a government or a platform wants to know. The internet is our public space. Nobody has to show ID to walk into a park, a library or a town hall, and nobody should have to online.â</p><p>âThis proposal by the European Commission must be seen as an assault on the free internet, and on gaming in particular. It shows absolutely no regard for video games as a cultural pursuit and imposes restrictions which raise serious proportionality concerns under the EU Charter, particularly the rights to freedom of expression and information, privacy and data protection.â</p><p>âMuch of gaming happens on private servers and on a peer-to-peer basis, which will not be able to implement or pay for the enormous costs associated with the Kids Act. Small developers and providers of online services do not have the technical or financial infrastructure to handle what the Commission is asking. Historic games that are unable to comply with the new rules would be impossible to distribute online.â</p><p>âThis means that much of gaming culture, and the historic works of music and art contained within them will be pushed into illegality or will simply disappear. To us, it seems as if the Commission wants to turn the EU into a digital colony of big US companies, where media is only accessed on large corporate platforms, hurting small EU-based companies, community run projects, and start-ups in the process.â</p></blockquote><figcaption class="text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.2em] text-text-muted">Paul Diegel, representative of the citizensâ initiative</figcaption></figure><section aria-label="Sign now" class="eci-callout readable-panel flex w-full flex-col items-center gap-5 p-8 text-center sm:p-10"><h2 class="font-display text-xl sm:text-2xl">Sign now</h2><p class="max-w-2xl text-base text-text-secondary sm:text-lg">All EU citizens of voting age can sign through the European Commissionâs official collection system.</p><a href="https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="sharp-button px-10 py-5 text-base sm:text-lg">Sign the initiative</a><p class="text-xs text-text-muted">Open to EU citizens. Youâll need an ID or passport number to sign.</p></section><section aria-label="About the initiative" class="readable-panel flex w-full flex-col gap-4 p-6 text-left sm:p-10"><h2 class="font-display text-xl sm:text-2xl">About the initiative</h2><p class="text-base leading-relaxed text-text-secondary">âStop Killing The Internetâ calls for binding legislation ensuring that digital identity and age verification systems for online services in the EU remain voluntary, privacy-preserving and non-discriminatory. 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