The Slow Death Of The Anonymous Internet

What if the price of logging onto the internet was your identity? The EU’s shiny new “age verification” app is being sold as child protection, but it looks a lot like the next phase of a decades-long experiment in mass surveillance; one that began with financial KYC and is now creeping into every corner of digital life. Europe isn’t just regulating the internet, but it's redesigning it into a permissioned system where anonymity becomes suspicious, dissent becomes risky, and freedom quietly expires behind a glowing age verification app.