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But it will stop many children who don't have the ability to install a VPN on their locked down Android or iOS device. This specific French law is a response to research that showed that 20% of French 10-year-olds access porn monthly, which caused a national scandal.

It can also force pressure on the sites to more carefully filter minors to both avoid other jurisdictions following suite and criminal charges if continuing access to found to be granted French children.

> Another impossible to enforce law made by people who don't know what they're doing.

A law doesn't have to be 100% inescapable to be effective. In fact, this is an extremely enforceable law, and it is you who fail to see the application, either through ignorance or arrogance.

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You do not need stop VPN or have age verification websites. You can just lock down Android/iOS/Edge against a blacklist of porn sites. Many providers are selling this as a service.

But it would be up to the parents to do this.

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You can say the same thing about alcohol, nicotine, driving, etc. As a society, we can decide that you cannot provide certain products and services to children and we can make that provision a crime.