alt Hacker News> Rather than age-gating technologies like VPNs, we believe that regulators should address the root causes of online harm by holding platforms to account
Honest question: if you tell Pornhub "now you will be fined heavily if you let 10-year old kids access porn", won't Pornhub implement some kind of age verification?
How else would the platform "address the root cause"?
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1shooner • today at 12:17 AM
You're asking if verified user accounts on a porn site are more or less invasive than the government banning or restricting access to VPNs?
iamalizard • yesterday at 10:59 PM
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Age gating the VPN age gates (pseudo-anonymous) access to 100% of the content on the internet. Regardless of whether or not you agree with it, age gating only the porn subset of the internet is a much smaller restriction.