It’s a good bet that an election-year bill to crack down on juvenile access to online pornography, which elected legislators of both parties passed overwhelmingly, will become law in Virginia. Stanley, R-Franklin County, is correct in calling underage consumption of internet porn an epidemic. A study Common Sense Media released in January found that an alarming three-fourths of teens have viewed online porn by their 17th birthdays with the average first exposure at age 12. And it’s imminently reasonable to empower people to sue deep-pocketed online smut purveyors for the wreckage they cause in children’s lives, as Stanley’s bill does. And there’s the age-old standby of stealing mom’s or dad’s ID to access porn sites.

Source: New York Times March 13, 2023 16:11 UTC