EU's Digital ID is Killing the Open Phone Market
odysee.comcross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/47274322
So, the EU Digital ID is threatening to kill alt Android and Linux phones, but this is also probably gonna screw over desktops too, because going by how it’s laid out by Mental Outlaw here, desktops could start being required to run Win11 with Pluton enforcement to comply with this, which would not only lock out Linux and BSD desktops, but also older desktops in general which can’t run Win11, and even older desktops which can run Win11 but are too old to support Pluton, meaning just like you have to buy a new Google or Apple phone to comply with this, you’d also have to buy a new Win11 desktop or laptop as well.
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This is a hijacking: True — the reader is damaged by restricted access, but it is also true that the author is damaged.
You post something that you intend to be read by the general public. You don’t control access; the place where you post it does. After age gating mandates, that place will assume the worst — that your content is adult content.
There are three age tiers: adult, young adult, and infants. After age gating mandates, many of your readers in the general public won’t comply by stipulating their ages. The worst-case assumption is that they’re all infants.
When age gating breaks down, there’s a mismatch between default age rating of authors’ content with default age rating of readers. Content that is adult by default won’t reach readers who are infants by default. Much of your content will go unread by much of the general public. One assumes this is age gating’s intentional design — to restrict access to your content.