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by toast0 43 days ago
> Isn't the synchronised effort suspect to you?

People bring this up, but these efforts aren't very fast and they cause a lot of noise, and social media has been terrible for people and children for a while now so... If I'm a politician and I hear of someone proposing something about it elsewhere, I'm going to do it too. If it works out, there's a race to claim credit; if it fizzles out, no harm for being the one to bring a fizzly bill; if it ends up terrible, you still get name recognition, so it's not so bad.

> How do you explain the inaction regarding child access to porn in the last 25 years?

Legislative bodies have tried lots of things in the last 25 years, just nothing terribly effective.