For those who think this is just a Utah peculiarity, it's not.

There have been attempts in Europe:

- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-porn-ban-digital-economy-... - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/germany-porn-laws-age-checks

And its quite related to other pushes for age verification for social media services, as Utah and states like California have proposed:

- https://www.axios.com/2022/09/16/california-law-websites-chi...

Governments regardless of political affiliation and motivation seem intent on age verification, and it's easy to see where this could lead to, for better or worse, a less anonymous and more bureaucratically gated internet going forward. Whether that's good or not is the discussion we should be having.