| Your reasoning is sound.
However, the problem is, as pointed out by the document within the article, and I quote: "The problem, in short, is that the law targets websites as a whole, rather
than at the level of the individual page or subdomain" Basically, this law would do nothing to prevent minors from accessing porn. It would just single out porn companies that are based/operate in the USA. And would only prevent direct access to them. Search engine results, visual search, metadata based content linking/recommendations, etc. are completely out of the scope. It also would not apply to any social media sites that carry less than 33% porn content. So basically you could still go to X or Reddit and search for porn there too. Even r/pornhub for pornhub reposts. It does not apply to apps that do search porn through API calls to porn sites that can be easily installed from the appstores. Want to actually regulate this stuff?
Make all internet connection capable devices be verifiable at the hardware level. Make it so apart from logging in to Google/Apple you have to also log in with a government issued ID through your ISP to some kind of verification portal/account. And link that verification to government developed software running within the device's OS which would block functionalities and can't be turned off/blocked without the device completely freezing. Want a less draconian/90% solution? Make the top 3 search engines(Google, Bing, Yahoo) and the top 5 social media sites that carry porn (X, Reddit, Facebook, etc.) block access to pornographic content through Government issued ID verification. Good luck with actually enforcing any of those though. And I would say workarounds are within reach of the average teenager. Mainly in the 90% solution. Just change the search engine. |