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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by dane-pgp on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @05:13PM (#27361384)
> So we get these laws that say, "solve the problem", and there isn't a way to solve the problem.

To give another obvious example of this pattern, there's "Make a crypto system which only lets the good guys in, not the bad guys".

In both cases, there's a "think of the children" imperative attached, but at least with laws about age restrictions there's more of a chance that the politicians' true goal isn't mass surveillance.

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