Sen. Lee Introduces Online Age Verification Bill to Protect Teens from Pornography
(CNS News) -- To help protect America's youth from the dangers of pornography, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bill on Dec. 13 that would require all pornographic websites to use an age-verification tool to prevent kids under the age of 18 from accessi...
Back in the 90’s porn sites required money up front. That seemed to work then. If these companies truly were capitalistic, they would have gone to a user fee/subscription model very early on. That they didn’t is proof that it’s a government-backed program.
Ads and user data are far more profitable.
I’d like to see the numbers on that: you could still get user data with a paid subscription service. You could still have ads to a limited degree before your customer base starts to dwindle. I’m sure someone somewhere has done the due diligence on it, but my overall point is this is a Hegelian dialectic.
Politicians could pass legislation that could accomplish the same thing without digital ID, but they won’t.