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.

Kudzai Kutukwa · Apr 17, 2026

Long Live The Digital Euro!

When a European Parliament official declares that opposing the digital euro means opposing Europe itself, she's not making an economic argument, she's issuing a threat. Imagine money that expires if you don't spend it fast enough, that refuses to buy fuel when you've exceeded your carbon allowance, that blocks donations to causes bureaucrats disfavour, that evaporates from your account through negative interest rates you cannot escape. The digital euro transforms currency from a neutral tool of exchange into a programmable weapon of behavioural control and its architects dare to call this "democracy."

Kudzai Kutukwa · Dec 10, 2025

Fiat Currency: The Silent Time Thief

Kudzai Kutukwa · Sep 09, 2025