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That isn't sufficient for the people trying to pass these laws. They're trying to get the government to enforce parental controls, not the parents. Those types of controls already essentially exist and yet they were deemed insufficient.
This is mostly because these people are not interested in protecting children, but rather shutting down anything they don't like. The same way they tried to shut down abortion clinics by attempting to hold them to full blown hospital building standards. It wasn't because it was unsafe, it was a way to harass the clinics they disapproved of.
Well yeah, the problem of the government wanting to govern things it shouldn't.
Yeah it’s important to keep in mind that while some of these people are just concerned about children, many ultimately want some content topics to be illegal that are currently legal. And for those funding and enacting such things such content is often all of pornography (as per their definitions) and all of queer content