> The most concerning menace, perhaps, stems from a well-intentioned effort by the European Commission to introduce, as part of the forthcoming European Digital Identity Wallet (EUID), an age verification tool

If it was well-intentioned, it would have been open-source, installed-and-enabled-by-default parental control software, that the owner of the device can disable, alter, or remove entirely as they wish. That they instead chose to expand surveillance and censorship (before trying any other approach!) proves that they are either hostile to their citizens, or indistinguishable from such hostility.