Rich parents can not prevent their children from accessing pornography and social media on the internet, and will also not be able to do so after this legislation.

Pornography is often delivered by people who don't care about US legislation, and social media is carefully left undefined, intentionally confounded with algorithms used to surface content (which people actually do object to at least the opaqueness of.)

I, like most, don't think that the totalitarianism is an unfortunate side-effect of the attempt to protect children online. I think legislation, and legislation like this, will only be successful in increasing surveillance and public manipulation, and that it will have virtually no effect on childrens' consumption of pornography and social media. If you really wanted to protect children, there's better legislation to write and technical solutions to implement.

When I was 14 I could just type porn.com into the address bar to see porn. (I remember - they had one of those fake customer testimonials - saying basically "porn.com is the best address for a porn site" which is very funny. Besides that it was nothing, so next time I googled the word porn).

Should it be that easy or should there be some road blocks? Should I have been able to go into a store at 14 and buy a beer?