“If I were to let my young child wander off on his own and he went through the neighborhood and ended up going into a bar, I should definitely get in trouble for not taking care of my child. But if he was served a drink at that bar, then the bar should be in trouble as well.”
How does such a website know/obtain not-easy-to-forge-dispute “age verification”.
If they require uploading a picture ID with date of birth, then isn’t the person risking compromise of that data on another website that might be hacked??
If you are worried about your photo id being hacked you can always choose to not visit porn sites where it is legally required.
For a company to say “the user can circumvent this legally required regulation so we are just not going to bother with it” is no excuse for failing to follow the law.
It would be as if a bar said “well underage kids can get fake IDs so we aren’t going to bother carding anyone”.