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The issue is that everyone thinks computers operate on magic, so they just ignore the idea that there might be practical limitations on doing the things that they want to do.
In reality there is no means of age verification that isn't also a form of identity verification. And if you asked people "Should everyone have to hand over their government ID to private companies in order to use the internet", you'd see much lower numbers of positive responses.
This is why opinion polling for policy is garbage. Would you like to have [nice thing]? Overwhelming support. Would you like to raise taxes to pay for [nice thing]? Overwhelming opposition.
*laws are just spells that wizards cast
Enforcement? What is that? /s