I know that the governments pushing these age verification laws are just using the well-being of children as a smokescreen, but for anyone who does think that the need to government to protect their children from porn, let me have a word with you:

Yes, it's your responsibility what your children do on the Internet. I don't buy this counterargument that your children will always be more tech savvy than you. Just look at Gen Alpha and how most of them can't even navigate a file system. Do you really think they can bypass firewalls if they can't understand how directories work?

You may think that children will find a way, but there are plenty of tutorials online on how to keep up with the latest security trends. Also, your kids won't be able to hack whatever security you have if you block the sites that give tutorials on bypassing such security measures.

If you are truly paranoid about what your kids do on the Internet or on the computer in general, either don't let them use a computer or electronic devices at all or set up their devices for them. There are custom USB-bootable Linux distros out there with parental controls in mind. You can even buy them from some websites so you don't need to know how to make bootable drives yourself. They only allow kids to use whitelisted sites and programs. Don't give your kids accounts on your computers and then they will have no choice but to use those flash drives. Whitelisting (i.e blacklisting everything except for a few approved sites) is the only guaranteed way to keep your kids safe online (outside prohibiting them from using the Internet at all, of course).