Today, 21 January 2026, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal for a Digital Networks Act (DNA). Framed as a technical modernisation of Europe’s telecom rules, the proposal marks a decisive shift away from core principles that have safeguarded an open and neutral internet for almost a decade.
Wtf is wrong with europe? Everyone surrendered to tech companies last year. Why?
We have been battling these assholes for decades. They only have to win once, we have to fight all the time. Money does this, it’s that simple. Money is power, therefore democracy doesn’t matter, ideals don’t matter, only whatever people with money want matters in the end.
Because corruption.
We have all the wrong people in charge across the west, from business to government to organizations. The wrong people choosing the wrong people, choosing for being nihlists, they believe in nothing other than self interest oftentimes.
An inevitable consequence of not having a clear separation of money and state. Money and profit has taken over as the sole guiding imperative of civilization, it doesn’t matter what we think, only what is financially expedient.
why don’t people remember the Digital Markets Act anymore… they charged Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft… and fined Apple and Meta half a billion right last year and people seem to be pretending that didn’t happen
The EU started out great. They’ve been going downhill, but just in the last year they really just surrendered to tech, something to do with the US election I presume. Surrendering to tech especially, giving them every piece of information on everyone to run threat detection, ie chat control, age checks, etc. Sadly, shamefully, that is what your politicians are up to as we speak. Tell them to fuck themselves because you do not consent to being fucked by neither tech nor the US, nor them.
Chat Control has been haunting the chambers since 2021, and it’s in dormancy again as of November 2025. I don’t see how age checks benefit tech companies at all given they reduce their audience and the data for verification is required to be received by the government and denied to private entities. If you live in the EU, you’ve already given the government more information than that.
Besides starting to fine tech companies for violating the DMA, you also have the Digital Fairness Act proposal last year that we’ll soon see debating in Q3.
Age checks identify every account and every ip. Which is the point. Identified in a way that lower level government, business dickheads, hacker groups, and the tech companies running it along with other organized groups like intelligence agencies, can get their hands on the data if they try.
Chatcontrol was also not “dead” last I heard, they redesigned it for the umpteenth time, calling it voluntary, which it wasn’t I forget the tortured legal construction to allow them to call it “voluntary.”
The entire world is implementing stuff like this right now, all trying to implement new “ai” technology to surveil their populations.
On what data? All age verification does is attest that an IP is over a certain age; the European solution collects no information other than the boolean “Is user over <age>?”, the expiry date, and the issuing authority. I don’t know what you can do with data simply saying that the user isn’t browsing the internet “illegally”, since with age gating every user on the Internet is over that age. In our present time of dynamic/private IPs, the operator behind the IP (and consequently their age) changes constantly anyways, meaning that little data is constantly invalidated.
Chat Control is “dormant”. It’s been amended, re-proposed, and then put back on the backburner for umpteenth times, including this time. It’s definitely a threat, I agree, but nothing about it has become more eager in 2025.
Forcing everyone to identify themselves with ID and or likeness, to private companies, ID’s every account and IP, and everything done under that recorded, and AI sorting it all. Do you really not know what is going on here? You think the information won’t be held by anyone?
Intelligence already has that information too to a degree. This would be accessible to lower level government, like political appointees, to silicon valley doing the verification, to the police, you name it, no matter what they tell you.
You do realize some of the verification is sending video of you, and or sending in ID. If you don’t see a problem with that, I could not help but think your fear center is impaired somehow.
Again, the EU age verification is not done by private companies. It’s open source, the specifications are out, and it’s run by the government. Companies that access the attestation only learn whether the user/shifting IP is above the age of majority. They cannot get your ID.
Here we go again, getting rid of good things for profit.
Europe, you’re supposed to be better than America, not replicate what makes America trash. This is backwards.
America gets digital freedom with pedophilia and hate speech
Europeans gonna get 1984 message scanning and read only websites
Or like stated here EU Advocates for stronger EU harmonization argue that a unified market is essential for creating viable pan-European investment models, particularly for high-capacity fixed networks and future mobile technologies. Industry groups have consistently called for longer, more predictable spectrum licensing and consistent award conditions across the EU, arguing that national divergences impede deployment and escalate costs.
And, per July 2025 joint statement by consumer and civil society groups urged the Commission to preserve robust net neutrality within the DNA and voiced concerns regarding proposals linked to the “fair share” debate, including ideas for dispute-resolution systems between telecom operators and online services. Hence, Europe’s commitment to the principle of net neutrality is reaffirmed, mandating equal treatment for all Internet traffic by operators, a stance maintained despite industry calls for a less restrictive regulatory environment.
I read the headline as “Getting Nut Neutrality” and wondering if it was Novemember. I need like 20 more minutes of sleep.
The bisexual union
