[KnobbleMcKnees]

Or let's take another perspective:

Free VPNs are easily understood and accessed by minors, except now their browsing history is exposed to spurious, unverified, and foreign companies and actors that aren't held to the privacy standards of internet providers and mobile carriers.

This is "ten foot wall and eleven foot ladder" territory and we should be very wary of who is selling the ladder.

[erenyeager]

Domestic companies already are privacy disasters. The US can introduce privacy legislation like the EU if this is really an issue. But already porn is illegal for children under 18, so this is just a way to more effectively regulate with minimal externalities. Many people already pay for pornography which usually necessitates identification, so requiring ID for any porn site access is not a huge jump.

[KnobbleMcKnees]

>Many people already pay for pornography which usually necessitates identification, so requiring ID for any porn site access is not a huge jump.

The vast majority of people do not pay for porn, therefore for the vast majority of people it is a huge jump; and so this isn't a very compelling point.

And my point was that regulation with easy and free to access loopholes is regulation only by name. Did you know you can still buy drugs, download movies and watch bestiality porn on the Internet? How can this be when these things have been illegal/regulated for so long!?