# DIGITALID

# DIGITALID

vlgr Aug 3, 2026

Europe Demanded Age Verification. Europe Could Not Build Age Verification.

Europe spent years rewriting legislation to protect children online, reaching from digital-ID verification to access the internet to banning children from communicating in multiplayer games. Then came the implementation phase.

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vlgr Jul 30, 2026

Telegram, Terrorists and the Right to Be an Idiot

Criminals use encrypted messaging. So does everyone else. Telegram’s battles with France and Russia expose the question governments would rather avoid: should the state investigate people suspected of crimes, or weaken private communication until everyone becomes conveniently searchable?

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vlgr Jul 29, 2026

Fauci’s Diaries Belong to the Public. Von der Leyen’s Belong to History.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has introduced a dangerously old-fashioned concept into public administration: when public officials conduct public business using public infrastructure, the resulting records might actually belong to the public. Not in Europe. The more powerful the official, the more private the public business becomes.

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vlgr Jul 25, 2026

Trump About To Open the EU Piggybank Audit

On Friday evening Donald Trump announced that the United States will immediately open a Section 301 investigation into the European Union’s practice of fining American technology companies. While the rest of the developed world argues about the next generation of AI, the European Union is proudly pioneering the controlled degradation of its own digital services.

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vlgr Jul 25, 2026

Europe’s Most Successful Technology Business Is Fining Foreign Technology Businesses

Google, Apple, Meta, Temu and AliExpress have all discovered Europe’s latest digital innovation: the regulatory invoice. The fines enter the EU budget, national payments continue rising and Brussels remains dependent on the same American and Chinese platforms it cannot reproduce.

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vlgr Jul 24, 2026

The Euro Discovers Birds: Europe Redesigns Its Money Because It Was Not Conceptual Enough

The European Central Bank has unveiled ten official design proposals for the next generation of euro banknotes. Europe has chosen giant eyes, anonymous citizens, migratory birds, rivers and EU institutions. Within hours the internet answered with air-conditioning units, street brawls, plastic bottles and Karl Marx.

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vlgr Jul 18, 2026

The Digital Euro And The European Payment Garden

The European Central Bank is pushing ahead with the digital euro. A pilot is planned for September 2027, with a planned full rollout around 2029. Europe takes physical cash, which suffered from the primitive defects of anonymity, unrestricted possession and immediate personal control, and improves it by adding identity verification, holding limits, automated transfers, sanctions checks, conditional payment infrastructure, integration with digital identity systems and the possibility of future software updates.

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vlgr Jul 15, 2026

t.me links died for a day. It wasn’t Brussels - this time.

On Monday evening, Telegram’s core short-link domain t.me was placed on serverHold at the .me registry. Every link using that domain ceased to resolve for users worldwide. The change was not the result of a technical failure on Telegram’s side, nor was it a conventional takedown following a court order, but a registry-level administrative action that simply removed the domain from global DNS resolution.

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vlgr Jul 10, 2026

CHAT CONTROL V. – Why and How to Resist the Identified Internet (last article not being satire here)

The familiar response to privacy concerns is that people who have done nothing wrong should have nothing to hide. That argument reverses the intended dynamics between the individual and the state. Citizens are expected to trust governments, technology companies and verification contractors with increasingly sensitive identity data, although all of them have demonstrated that their systems can be breached, misconfigured or exploited.

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vlgr Jul 10, 2026

CHAT CONTROL IV. – From Burning Books to Blocking Readers - WE ARE HERE

Geogating the Internet, Deciding What People Are Allowed to See, Digital Fingerprint tied to OS, Linux and Refusal of Service are already alive and kicking.