I think what they wanted was proof of age. Which isn’t wholly unreasonable. The problem is doing it in a way that protects privacy. These debates happened in the 90s too. Every porn site had an age verification or warning that you had to electronically assert you were age of majority plus.

I wish we could all agree that, this is important and we shouldn’t be allowing minors to watch pornography. The porn sites don’t want to be liable to verify age so they pull these stunts blocking a whole state that wants verification.

There must be a reasonable and non political way to protect minors. Cigarette machines aren’t around anymore due to age verification (and people quitting smoking). Why are we so against real age verification ? I’m 110% pro anonymous internet viewing and privacy protection. But perhaps when we want to view pornography we should be okay with some form of verification.

This kind of leads me to a moral Vision quest

1. It’s not the governments or anyone else’s business what I do on the internet. 2. Except my significant other, if I have to hide pornography viewing from my partner then I’m doing something wrong morally 3. More important than my ability to jack off to clown porn is the innocence of my children to not be completely corrupted by such porn at age 6 4. Privacy is important, it is not my employer or any marketing agencies business than my SO and myself wear wigs and green makeup when we fuck 5. How hard is a pro privacy age verification system? Leisure suite Larry conquers that in 1985