Privacy issues could be mitigated and to the specific “issue” of children and teenagers accessing adult content basic parenting and conversation would have a bigger impact than trying to forbid it. How has that worked out historically with alcohol or smoking?

By UKs definitions in OSA once considered family shows like Dancing with the Stars and other entertainment productions could be banned. Sexualized content is everywhere in real life, internet just mirrors it, not creates it.

The fundamental issue with age verification is censorship. Once framework is created it can be applied to any other content someone deems you shouldn’t access. What is legal today can be illegal tomorrow.