The laws not stopping the criminals isn't the point. People are calling on their governments to do something and thus governments are going to do what they are going to do.

It's a mix of what they can do and what they're likely to do. They just have to be able to go back to voters and say they're doing something.

If you think that the fact that they did the wrong thing is an argument for not doing anything, you clearly are blind to politics & history.

And age verification being the wrong solution to the "privacy problem" doesn't remove privacy from lawmakers' crosshairs.