You're going to need to provide a source for that outrageous claim.

Also, which sites that are impacted by the age verification laws are involved in grooming in any way?

Please be specific.

Why should that be our problem when we can just tell parents to parent?

If the solution consists on me and my children sacrificing our privacy then I'm sorry, but I don't care about other people's children getting groomed.

Your child, your responsibility, prepare him better for the world or throw the god damn phone to the trash, but please leave me alone.

I had more sympathy for parents with this problem before, but not anymore. If they don't respect my rights, I don't see why I should care about them.

I don’t think software downloads, even downloads of software we might find objectionable, can be considered to be something that is engaging in “grooming.”

That’s simply not what that word means.

If your child takes interest in something you don’t like that they found online, they weren’t inherently groomed by anyone into liking it.

Cite?

Well, this mandatory age input won't help with that, either. The parental controls are a much more powerful version. So I guess you're in favor of more strict version of this, and hope that we'll slippery-slope our way to it eventually? How do you propose to do that without ending internet anonymity for everyone?

Taking for granted that is really the purpose, how does age verification solve this problem? Adults won't have any trouble accessing online spaces meant for kids under these laws. And then why does porn get mixed up in this, it's not exactly a place where kids "hang out."

Are you talking about Epstein, or something else? Epstein largely built his network through word of mouth.