Virtual private networks and the protection of children online

This reads like the most blatant attempt yet to strip away our freedoms in the name of mass surveillance! If you wanted to use a VPN to bypass age verification in the EU, you wouldn't use an EU VPN in the first place!

They can't ban non-EU VPNs without setting up a Great Firewall of Europe, but maybe that is the goal now? Looking at Spain blocking all of Cloudflare doing football games, it definitely sets a dark precedent.