Unfortunately they also passed a law for age checks in order "to protect children", which is supposed to block porn unless you show your E-ID. While a referendum was initialized it sadly didn't gain enough media attention to actually make it to a vote.
Easy to google for more, from varying levels of fringy-looking websites, but the "numerical ID == mark of the beast" fear is common evangelical American doctrine of the same source that saw these books sell 65 million copies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind - they went digital with an injected chip, which is one of the things the Covid-19 vaccine sparked echoes of
pheggs|5 months ago
majormajor|5 months ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2014/07/16/social-...
https://www.faithfamilyfit.org/post/is-the-real-id-act-a-gat...
Easy to google for more, from varying levels of fringy-looking websites, but the "numerical ID == mark of the beast" fear is common evangelical American doctrine of the same source that saw these books sell 65 million copies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind - they went digital with an injected chip, which is one of the things the Covid-19 vaccine sparked echoes of