Save the kiddies - parents' job!
This whole thing is wrong way up. Its proponents are presenting it as the same sort of age verification you have in shops to buy alcohol etc. But anyone can buy alcohol and give it to their children, or let them drink bleach, or play with matches - so there are social norms that you don't let your children have these things and if you do, it is your responsibility for any harm that ensues. I can't see why the internet access isn't the same: it has to be paid for by an adult, and that is the point at which age verification should happen. If you want to keep you children out of porn sites, you should be able to choose an ISP that filters your connections for all your family's devices. If you don't, then it's your job to arange filtering, and if you don't and your children end up at the psychiatrist, then you should be up in court for neglect.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
