If you're a youngster in America who wants to see a rated R movie, you're probably gonna get carted. The pornography that is on the internet today is not your daddy's playboy,. This is really hard core pornography, and it's just freely accessible to children. And so as a legislature, I can do something about it, and I did.
States want to restrict kids’ access to harmful content online via age verification systems. New York Times reporter Natasha Singer explains how a wave of new legislation could dramatically reshape the internet.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd with help from Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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