I understand why pretty much everyone is against this law in this thread and I agree that the way they went about this isn't a good approach. However, we should acknowledge the vast number of parents who legitimately don't have the time, energy, or knowledge necessary to teach and protect their children from the real problems that are associated with highly accessible, hyper realistic, and increasingly graphic porn. The folks who fit into this category are not the middle class to Surly 1%ers who have the resources to address this for their children. It's the low income and single parent families who work all week and already have very little ability to monitor their children. Just like all issues with children that are not being sufficiently addressed at the fair level, this is inescapably a societal problem and responsibility because all of society benefits from children who are raised with a healthy understanding of sexuality and intimacy. Now, this certainly doesn't mean that this law is the solution or even a good way to approach it, but in much of the dialogue I've seen around this topic, there's been a serious lack of acknowledgement of this as a problem at the societal level, without which this will never get addressed. We've had a couple decades of this as the norm and I think it's safe to say that admonishing parents and sex ed classes aren't doing it so a workable solution has to be found and it clearly can't rely wide swaths of parents suddenly changing their parental monitoring and technology purchasing practices, as nice as that would be.