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These fuckers always throw around the term "protecting our children" when they want to do something shitty. Companies like Pornhub actually have strick controls to actually protect children with their anti-CP policies. By forcing them to adopt these bullshit government controls, it only moves users to less legitimate sites without anti-CP policies.
I was an active user of pornhub when I was 14 years old and all my friends too, probably most of my whole class and the next. This may be what they mean by protecting children by verifying the age, by not making them porn addicts since being teenagers.
EDIT: I'm curious about the downvoters, please elaborate. It is okay for kids starting at 12-13-14 years old watching porn and hardcore porn? It's better to not do anything about it? How would you control it if not? I know privacy and shit and that's a problem too but which is a worse problem?
Talking about my experience I really wish porn wasn't so accessible to me when I was a kid.
Parental responsibility? Plenty of resources on the internet to block adult sites at the router and on device. If that's to technical they can get device lockers and only let their kids use them in communal areas of the home and lock them up otherwise.
There are so many options for parents that actually care that the idea the only solution is a government nanny on the internet is the height of ridiculous.
I think that unless you somehow force parents to be responsible they just won't be. As you have said there are plenty of resources out there and nobody cares.
You can't force anyone to care about anything all you can do is educate them. After that if they do nothing then they clearly don't care if little Johnny or Susie are having personal time while browsing porn.
Most importantly of all the government has no business knowing what legal porn each adult does and does not consume in the name of "protecting children". It is the same bullshit argument governments use as a reason to require encryption backdoors.
That's very true.