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Funny - I assume on one here was actually involved in creating the law that requires identification when buying pornography (or alcohol. Or tobacco) at stores, but we are all considered responsible for it to the point we are hypocrite if we object a similar law?
If someone says they are against that law now, years after it's already established and spread, it won't be taken as "I'm generally against the government limiting our freedom to consume what we want" but as "I want to push children to consume porn/alcohol/tobacco". So no one argues against these laws. But it's much more feasible to argue against the new laws - a ship that's still in the port.
30 years from now, when they make the law that neural implants must detect illegal thoughts in the users' biological brains and block them, you'd make the argument that it's not fundamentally different than blocking the same topics on the internet - a practice that, by that time, will already be accepted by the general populace.