Comment by sarchertech

There’s some massive hyperbole there. “Turning an entire generation into police informants.” Sure there’s some stories about that happening but it didn’t happen enough to move the needle in terms of things that actively harmed adults.

It was harmful because it was ineffective as a mechanism to help Children not because of some nefarious motives against adults.

The same with abstinence only education. Virtually all of the harm was because it was an ineffective policy to help children, not because of some tiny second order effect on adults because children werent educating parents.

Video game regulation was primarily about adding ratings to games which again only harms adults insomuch as children are a big market so developers are less likely to make mature games.

2 of the 3 examples you gave were definitely ineffective at protecting children, but in terms of harming adults, the effects were so minuscule that if that was the goal, the supporters failed severely.

As far as age checks. We have age checks for brick and mortar stores I’m fine with age checks for websites. You also can’t display pornography in public for kids to see.

There’s nothing about “but it’s on the internet” that makes me think it’s inherently ok to treat it differently.

I think there are probably better ways to do it than this Mississippi law, and a law in a single state will probably prove ineffective in general.