

we shouldn’t have age verification at all.
First off, if your goal is to keep kids from porn, that’s not going to work. Kids will always find a way around whatever obstacles you put in their path. even back when porn was just a physical book you had to go into a special store with blacked out windows and flash an id to get, kids still got porn.
But it’s absolutely not about protecting children. It’s about monitoring the entire population and forcing adherence to whatever social rules those in power want to drop while making a buck off compromising everyone’s personal information.

I think there does need to be some reigning in of spending.
We shouldn’t operate on an unbalanced budget as a normal course.
Keep in mind it’s mostly republicans blowing up the debt- tax breaks for people who don’t need tax breaks. Wars against people who weren’t a threat. Bailouts to company’s that then use the cash for a stock buy back… funding Israel…. There’s a shit load of problematic spending but it’s always health care and education and social safety nets first.