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Can We Stop Kids From Watching Porn?

Can We Stop Kids From Watching Porn?

Update: 2025-04-15
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States are cracking down on online porn—but is it working? The researcher Zeve Sanderson explains how age-verification laws backfire, why teens outsmart them, and what that means for the future of internet regulation. 


Further reading: 


Do Age-Verification Bills Change Search Behavior? A Pre-Registered Synthetic Control Multiverse,” by David Lang, Zeve Sanderson, et al. 


The Online Porn Free-for-All Is Coming to an End,” by Marc Novicoff 


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Can We Stop Kids From Watching Porn?

Can We Stop Kids From Watching Porn?

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