EU Flags Emoji Codes in Drug Sales, Hate Speech Online

Establishment-critical narrative

The EU's push for digital ID wallets and age verification apps isn't about protecting the public. This is a surveillance framework dressed up in good intentions, centralizing personal data, biometrics and identity documents to create massive privacy vulnerabilities, as proven when the EU's own age verification app was hacked in under two minutes. Handing governments access to and control over private social media accounts gives the state an easy tool to track and censor citizens' speech.