Well... if you pay for this stuff, you're already having a credit card involved (for example. Maybe you're buying gift cards, and age gating can happen there!). If you're not.... maybe the decimation of free porn is not a bad thing for the universe.
I do believe in privacy rights, but... free porn just doesn't feel like a must-exist thing in the sense we are all talking about.
I do think that there's a universe where self-governance sort of resolves these problems. Many industries have done this! In a universe where basically you needed a credit card to access this stuff ~always, this law would likely not exist.
> I do believe in privacy rights, but... free porn just doesn't feel like a must-exist thing in the sense we are all talking about.
In other words, you don't actually believe in privacy rights because all it takes is one flimsy reason that you happen to, if not agree with, don't really find objectionable to violate them. Is the harm caused by anyone under arbitrary age seeing porn harmful enough to violate everyone's right to privacy, even when there are already existing solutions to help prevent minors from accessing pornography?
Parental controls exist. Tools to block websites like pornhub or any other porn website exist already. You might say that it's too easy to circumvent parental controls. I'd say that it's just as easy to circumvent ID requirements, so if your goal is to actually protect children from pornography, it's not going to be anymore effective than current access controls.
>I do believe in privacy rights, but... free porn just doesn't feel like a must-exist thing in the sense we are all talking about.
...Well gee golly gosh, did you ask anyone else in the room? Or did you unilaterally decide what's best for everyone else?
And clearly you don't support privacy rights if you're willing to turn around and hand everyone else's off. Talk about saying one thing and doing something completely different. The turn of phrase this brings to mind is "Stop pissing on my shoes, and trying to convince me it's raining."
My point is that this privacy dilemna exists only for sites like pornhub, which offer it for free.
I can go to a convenience store right now and by credit for a large porn site here. It's "private" in the sense that everyone in this discussion seems to believe it to be. The fact that it's paid means that we can have privacy-preserving purchasing methods because there is money that helps to finance these checks.
Hell, pornhub could easily set up a "gift card" system where you have to go pay a dollar somewhere to get your age verified. This is far from an unsolvable problem.
