>>29190884I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're just ignorant about what's actually going on. What the bans are actually requiring is that every individual porn site verify their user's ID through stuff like uploading a picture of yourself and a photo ID, giving identifying personal information like an SSN or credit card number, stuff like that. Each of these sites are expected to gather and store that information for the sake of the children. The real kicker is that sites and platforms where children actually get exposed to porn first (google, youtube, discord, X, facebook, ect) are all excempt from these laws. It's only porn sites. There are cheaper, safer and more effective ways of preventing children from accessing restricted sites. Device-based age authentication is a technology that exists and interacts across all websites for example. And if you think that kids can bypass that, well I'd rather a child attempt to bypass a device's age verification than a child bypass site verification by stealing and uploading a parent's driver's license
The real purpose of these laws aren't to save the children (there are more effective ways of doing that) or protect users (these laws actively hurt users). They're enacted in order to scare users away from using porn sites and to make running those sites too expensive to run legally. Any "save the children" rhetoric is used as cover for the more puritan ideal that porn should should just be illegal.
You understandably naive but otherwise good natured individual who sees the best in the world and is justifiably upset at others who blow things out of proportion.
