Notice how it's just accepted that, while burdensome and of dubious necessity, sure, the government can mandate that all software providers, and soon all websites (at least those that support user-generated content) perform rudimentary age verification, which everyone assumes will eventually become government id- or biometric-based age verification.

But suggest banning industrial-scale generative AI--which facilitates fraud and ID theft, and whose voluminous, spam-like output is fast drowning out actual humans, much to the chagrin of advertisers and those tech companies deriving much of their revenue from advertising, which is what I suspect is the real sudden impetus for these laws--and people act like you're either crazy or an authoritarian.

But banning OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini would fix a lot of this. It would also reduce the burden caused by AI scraper DDoSing, and make computer hardware cheap again.