The UK laws are even worse. All they are achieving is creating a barrier that is too high for smaller services to reach. If you want to consolidate the internet into just a few services like facebook (who can afford the infrastructure to satisfy the new requirements), then I could not think of a more effective way to achieve it. Predictably, we are now seeing smaller services geo blocking the entire UK, because conforming is simply not a viable option. Oh and children have already foiled it on the larger established services.
We all understand what these laws are trying to accomplish, and I appreciate your reasons for supporting it. But as I said, I’m not convinced they will actually do what they intend, and having once been a teenager, I have a strong belief that it will push their online activity underground.
I do agree with you that fines for damaging content would be a good first step. But that’s not what people are concerned about here, and if the law stopped there it would be a nothing burger.