Hey, teacher, leave the kids alone!

So not just I have to use Tor in Russia for those, but I'll also have to use non-EU exit nodes. Thank you morons.

The Internet is not a place for children, stop trying to make it one and make parents responsible again for the things their kids consume.

Or, you know, parents could actually use parental controls.

Nothing disgusts me more than Puritans.

The fascist censorship regime is just ramping up their efforts in Europe. The Nazis took over again.

In most of EU there are laws that forbid minors to access some products (like, you cannot sell alcool to minors). Don't see as fascist to make those laws respected.

I mean, if a minor buys a liquor from a store and it is caught, the store pays a fine (or it is temporary closed or whatever the law says), why should be a company that sell pornography (or enable to watch it) not be responsible the same way ? Just because it is on internet and it is a US company ?

If only parental controls would work decently...

But I agree, this should be a matter of education and the parents should be present and educate their children.

Yes, I am familiar with the ‘think of the children!’ Trojan horse tactic.

Or actually monitor their kids' internet use.

Exactly. Let them access specific sites you trust as they need to, and monitor their use. As they earn your trust, teach them how to avoid the worst of it and let them go on their own more and more.

That's how anything works with kids. Monitor them as they do something new, then let out the leash as they earn your trust, until they no longer need the leash.

So in your opinion even the ban to sell alcool to minors is in the "think of the children" category ?

Anyway, the ban to sell pornography to minors date way before internet so what's the point ? EU is not making a new law, it merely try to look if these companies respect them.

Then I could agree that back at the time, when you need to go to the newsstand to buy "the product" the check was easy and now it is everything but easy. Back at the time you just need to show your ID and that's all, the newsagent would never remember you and have nothing about you to be stoles.
Now the only problem I see is that the data you could send to verify you are an adult will be stolen (and sold) and that is a problem.

Literally no one but you is arguing about minors accessing porn.

Meaning, the parents shouldn't let the child buy stuff on pornhub?

No, I'd liken it to an adult giving a child alcohol. I don't know of any children who pay for their own Internet access.

If your liquor cabinet at home isn't locked, and your kid steals some, it isn't any different than not having a locked down Internet connection.

Well yes, but....

Loads and loads of parents simply aren't fit to fit the description. There are loads of idiots out there that just don't care that their five year old watches porn. Then there is the class of idiots that think their little angel would never do such horrendous things, they're with God, didn't you know?

As an aside, I'm really curious as to what the deleterious effects are on kids, say, 12+ that watch porn. I was a kid like that over 3 decades ago and though porn wasn't as readily available as it was today, I remember watching the encrypted porn channel for the eventual boob flash, or the mosaic channel that would show 20x20 px porn. Actual porn from BBS-es (pre internet dial in systems) came into my life at about... 15-ish, I'd say, and it didn't affect me negatively whatsoever.

I'd definitely would like to see the difference between the effects on kids watching porn vs kids watching ultra violent movies or even real violence online. I'd wager the latter being more harmful than porn (be it porn combined with well designed sex education in schools, so good with that US kids!)

And not the American states were mandatory age verification is the law.

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But that would mean parents would have to learn something new. Nah.