Proof Of Age Should Be Censored

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: The question says about a bill which was introduced in congress to require the proof of age from any person visiting the site and that should require a credit card number or some other adult identification number. Some of the arguments for this law are:
As we all know that pornography impacts a huge percentage of children by the misuse of those sites. Therefore, in my view, there should be:
1. Age prohibited content:
There is a need to protect the children from these acts and therefore, to protect the children, content beyond the age of 18 years should be blocked. In this way if the sites are for above 18 years of age, children would be prohibited for its usage.

2. Restricted sites:
The sites which are not for children and some vulnerable people are being blocked so that they cannot use them. The cntet of those sites can be related to hacking, pornography or any other type of illegal activity.

3.
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Age Confirmation:
Age must be proved in order to get access to these sites, and for that, one should visit any of the shop related to this and give his identity proof, that is photo id and credit card details so that if anyone else doing some illegal act on a person’s credit card other than that person or without the permission of that person, then he would come to know as he will be notified for the same. Arguments against this law will be:
Giving the credit card details or any other adult identification number for the sake of giving proof of age for pornography is not ethical since a credit card number has all the information of a person as where he lives, what is his phone number, where he does

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