No. Sites shouldn't have to ID everyone that uses them. The internet shouldn't be turned into a nursery for children just because parents don't want to do their job and supervise their children while they're on the internet. If you want a curated internet that is child-appropriate, then you create your own private internet. You don't force the rest of the world to censor itself.

Why isn't your name in your profile here or why aren't you easily identified if that's the case? You're not all that identifiable here.

We should be though.

Also, what is porn and who gets to define what porn is?

Just like the free market figured out cybersecurity?

It ain't a magic wand that fixes all problems, buddy. Some problems just aren't possible to fix without making changes that sacrifice values core to the economy and of our culture.

A website isn't comparable to a physical storefront. What an absolute boomer thing to suggest.

What tech discipline are you in? Policy? Because I have serious doubts you have any technical experience.

A website is mediated by computers. Computers make copies of information that is sent to them because that is how computers work.

Tech companies also like to collect and sell personal information.

What do you think will happen with records of people's fetishes in the hands of companies that like to sell personal information?

> Physical storefronts don't collect and sell your information?

I have no reason to believe a physical strip club would sell info of which ladies I look at to anyone with a couple of bucks.

I can't say the same about websites.

> Not my problem and tangential to age verification.

You can't demand a solution while ignoring the cost and expect to be taken seriously.

You didn't give a solution. You just asserted "the free market will handle it."

Yes, because the free market has handled this exact thing for porn, alcohol, etc.

This idea that online is somehow special doesn't fly with me. We can agree to disagree.

That isn't a solution.

The free market isn't magic.

The free market hasn't solved cybersecurity.

The free market hasn't solved world hunger.

The free market sure as hell hasn't solved Healthcare or even promote good health.

You have magical thinking at best. This isn't an "agree to disagree" issue any more than it would be for me disagreeing with someone who believes the moon is made of cheese.