Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

I'm genuinely curious. The parent buys the phone/laptop. And when little Timmy logs in to his phone the account should be in a family/group as a child account.

What's with the obsession with actually verifying identity? Just make a web API available to determine if the current user is configured as a child account. Why isn't that enough to gate-keep access to adult content?

Timmy's friend in school has parents who have no idea about family/child accounts. They just give him a phone and let him do whatever he wants.

Timmy's friend is really popular in school.

Timmy's friend has a big brother that lets him use his ID. There will always be ways to circumvent this. The only functional difference between a simple setting in the browser and requiring ID attestation is how much surveillance it allows the government to do.

According to this logic, why ban anything? There is always someone who can help you overcome the ban. So, let children buy alcohol and cigarettes, why not also drugs?

Identification verification doesn't solve that either. His friend could still hand him his phone after logging in and verifying, right? Unless they're doing facial scans the entire time the user is reading adult content.

It seems more like verification theatre.