Restrictions under consultation include curfews for young users and wider restrictions on children’s access to online services, with implications across internet services from video games, VPNs to even static websites.
Age assurance mandates risk cementing the dominance of gatekeeper app stores, operating systems, and platforms’ walled gardens.
This article from the EFF specific towards the UK, but I do agree with your overall post that governments are overreaching in harmful ways.
Most of their comment was about the UK!
all of it is about the UK except for a very short comparison at the end....