[ltbarcly3]

It's amazing how much it's possible to foment arguments against something if you are very well funded and a regulation will cost your industry a lot of money.

Age verification is a good thing. Giving children unrestricted access to hardcore pornography is bad for them. Whatever arguments you want to make, fundamentally this is true.

[EmbarrassedHelp]

Age verification is fundamentally harmful and is an attack on user privacy. Age verification is being heavily lobbied for by tech companies that are hoping to get rich off of violating your privacy.

Anonymous age verification is fundamentally impossible. It is especially a bad idea for adult content, as a person's perfectly legal sexual beliefs and fantasies can permanently destroy their lives if that information got out. Parental controls are the only ethical, secure, and privacy protecting way forward here.

[ltbarcly3]

You are begging the question. If age verification is required, it's not 'perfectly legal' to access weird porn without going through age verification.

There is no right, or even a debate about whether there should be a right, to consume digital streams of other people engaging in sexual acts in total anonymity without proving age. In fact being able to do this at all is something that didn't exist until about 25 years ago, before that you had to drive down to a video store and rent a DVD or tape. At that video store you would have to show an ID to get an account, and there would be a permanent record at the store of what you have rented.

I get that people want to watch people engage in acts that they themselves find embarrassing and shameful. I don't agree that this is healthy, but if it's legal then I have no standing to complain much. However, it's not legal to provide videos of hardcore sex to children, which you are insisting is necessary to allow adults to consume videos of hardcore sex acts in perfect anonymity, which wasn't even a thing that was possible until very recently. Your argument is just stupid and absurd on its face.