What happens if some social media site hosted in another country becomes popular and refuses to implement these age verification measures? Is the EU going to create a great firewall like China and start blacklisting sites? Are they going to ban VPN’s too? Seems like a slippery slope could easily get extremely invasive and restrictive.

It does seem like an effort to connect all online activity to real-world identities.

  Is the EU going to create a great firewall like China and start blacklisting sites

https://diginomica.com/eu-policy-doc-recommends-building-eur...

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...

"Like the Chinese firewall, this European internet would block off services that condone or support unlawful conduct from third party countries."

Sound familiar?