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Barring a radical shift in the makeup of the internet (i.e., a movement away from traditional websites), age verification will never be a reality. Realistically, the only way to do it is for the www to collapse and everyone starts using nothing but mobile apps. Then Apple and Google would essencially control the contents of the internet and they could allow porn apps with age ID required. But that is all very far fetched.
The US supreme court long ago struck down a Clinton era attempt at putting sexually explicit materials behind an age wall due to first ammendment issues. So it will never happen in the US.
You'd have to be delusional to envision an internet without free porn. The genie is out of the bottle and she isn't going back in. The only thing society can do at this stage is normalize porn. And that's exactly what's been happening over the past 15 years. Look at PornHub's billboard in Times Square this week. That is a sign of the times.
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