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Age checks should be sufficient.

When the internet became popular in the 90s, no one censored it.

In the 90s, internet became popular with techies. It was built by technical people, mostly for technical people. Then, in the early 2000s, it grew to become a commerce platform next. It did not become pervasive as a town square until the smartphone era.

Yea, anyone that references the 90's in terms of internet behavior might as well say "Back before all these autos horse and buggy was just fine". It was positively tiny back then and people were not chronically online (well unless they were techies like me). Law enforcement and politicians for the most part had no idea what the internet was.

That world is long dead, everyone is constantly connected with a phone, and online behavior drives actions in the real world.

This is especially true when I am actually a paying customer for the product. May be I should be given the controls to filter based on my own tolerance.

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