@evacide A hypothesis I haven't tested but think we can assume unless someone wants to do the necessary web archive scraping:
Every porn site that would ever follow "age verification" laws—every site subject to any of the applicable jurisdictions—already had meta tags for adult content before those laws were ever bills. Minimum adequate parenting of "digital native" children—thus minimally adequate implementation of device administrative access and parental controls—would already block every site that would ever comply with the laws.
Therefore (as @404mediaco have also predicted), relative to porn access, the only real effect of such online panopticon laws is to direct people away from sites subject to democratic jurisdictions, which at least attempt to lawfully moderate content, and towards sites outside such jurisdictions, which deliberately distribute CSAM and other sex trafficking and SA content.
Legislatively outsourcing parenting onto the porn sites thus increases harm to everyone such laws claim to seek to protect.
#uspol #surveillance #censorship #privacy #idVerification #ageVerification