[thehm]

Where can one buy an internet connection without being at least 18 years old?

To use your analogy, it is parents who are paying for the alcohol and then leaving it in a place where it is easy for their children to access. Responsible parents either teach their children about appropriate alcohol use or make it difficult to access, or both.

[gabereiser]

We've learned that parents aren't responsible in the USA. This might change with the parents on trial for the teen shooter recently but ultimately up to this point, unless it's physical neglect, the parents delegate to the schools and then get upset when their kids are taught non-racist ideologies. Or they force the school board to ban/burn books like it's nazi germany.

[dagw]

Where can one buy an internet connection without being at least 18 years old?

Most cities are full of places offering free internet connections to anybody in the vicinity.

[mschuster91]

> Where can one buy an internet connection without being at least 18 years old?

Prepaid phone cards are a thing.

[formerly_proven]

But usually coupled to legally-mandated identity (and age, but it might not be 18) verification so you have an address to send the cops to when someone calls in a bomb threat.

[thehm]

Where I live, they can only legally be sold to people ≥ 18 years old. Maybe that should be more commonplace?