2 days ago in the night, French President Macron has passed through the mandatory age verification on social networks to force identity verification.

Anyone with good sense of pragmatism would come up with the reasoning that forbidding a smartphone to <15YO is a bounded law with more effect on the targeted demographic.

This style is of course a lie is disguise to push for taking control on the networks and news outlet. I can imagine how news in the US are (fake) - and you can imagine that we as well have news outlet completely fake in France.

The internet has given us a hope, it has given results to democracies, we are seeing the world for what it is, we have much more people that are aware of the broken system, much more people that are transgressing from the mainstream outlets.

We were given the right to inform ourself by ourself, to get to criticize things. And this is slowly being taken out from us in Europe.

I'm devastated atm. Quiet honestly very emotive.

We need to talk about this. We need to stand up. We need to do it, right now. I cannot think about a world where someone would decide what i read or what i'm going to think, or what i can say or not, and who to talk to and why - i do not understand why people would be guilty by default.

I posted this freaking topic on multiple french subreddits to get this kicked-out on all of them - it's arguably one of the most important topic of the hole f* internet.

Please help.