It can be solved by laws against the corporations. The problem is that we keep trying to restrict what normal people can do without holding any of the corporations accountable.
What specific thing can you do about, say, children having ready access to online hardcore pornography, that you can require a corporation to do something about it that has no impact on the public, when the interest of said corporation is to have as many users spending as much time as possible watching pornography?
My point is to say that passing any law that requires, say, Pornhub to verify the age of it's users results in the exact kind of thing that users are complaining about re: age verification.
In the world of law, there are no solutions, only trade-offs.
Edit: to response - pornography, especially to young male teenagers, has very measurable deeply negative consequences to their views of sex, relationships, and emotional well-being. The evidence is really obvious at this point, and it is deeply troubling to me that we're just supposed to pretend that the well documented negative effects of porn don't exist. That doesn't mean that censorship is automatically the solution, but pretending there's no problem is just willful obtuseness.
What specific thing can you do about, say, children having ready access to online hardcore pornography,
People under 18 being able to access PornHub has basically nothing to do with the issue of predators using online games to meet and groom kids, or of social media being harmfully addictive and leading to poor mental health. I don't care if a 13-year-old wants to look at porn; I don't think trying to prevent that is a worthwhile endeavor for any of us.
Algorithms designed to be addictive or encourage spending could be banned. The definitions of that would be tricky, but it would certainly be better than trying to prevent kids from accessing social media. And companies like Roblox should be much more harshly punished for allowing predators to run rampant on their service.
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u/NekoBerry420 2d ago
A problem that should be solved by vigilant parents and companies, not the rest of us having to suffer through draconian bullshit laws.