Comment by jraby3
6 hours ago
Why? Isn't your age verified when you renew your drivers license? Purchase something on Amazon?
When I was a kid, child programming and commercials were heavily scrutinized. Now any kid can access porn, violence, and scams on the internet. That's a blight. Not age verification.
I don’t understand, did broadcast TV or cable do age verification? Surely kids could watch content that was for adults very easily.
Broadcast TV had a very simple solution to this problem: Only air the not-for-kids stuff at times of the day when the kids are already asleep, i.e. late in the evening or at night.
It was still the job of the parents to set the bed times etc, but at least this was something the parents could actually control.
And for pay-per-view stations with actual heavily violent or pornographic content: Yes, they were absolutely age-gated, usually via a PIN.
and who sets that pin? It's the parents, not the cable company.
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As a kid, you never found a stack of porno magazines in the woods did you?
> Now any kid can access porn, violence, and scams on the internet.
Before Internet they used paper.
The ease of access, quantity and diversity of internet porn is in no common measure with magazines that existed in the 20th century.
That’s the job of parents. No exceptions. OP is right, it needs to be outlawed.