Any restriction on pon (or rather on what we can access online, in particular but not limited to pornography, recorded by/depicting consenting adults) is absolutely unacceptable. Age verification MIGHT be a solution to some minor issues, but not the way it was proposed in the UK and elsewhere.
Last year I wrote for The Common space:
“[…] a hyper-moralistic government that is trying to ban sexual behaviours they deem as inappropriate to others will soon be in possession of an enormous database of all kinds of sexual behaviours and deviations anyone can imagine — but don’t know what they’ll use it for.
The idea of “let’s protect our children” usually hides the bad intentions of pressure groups, many of which are religious, to curb others’ freedom — and nowadays there’s a legitimate concern about the security of personal data amid the panic caused by terrorism.
And the use of the expression “sexual behaviour” is not for nothing. This is government control of images and videos of sexual acts; it would be naive to think it could not be used to potentially embarrass citizens to change, hide or suppress such behaviours.”
Parents are supposed to take care of their children and control what they can or cannot see/access online, not the government, not any private company at the expenses of our privacy.
