There is a lot of potential for harm with the current implementation ranging from identity theft, fraud, reputational damage through to access to educational information on sensitive subjects like self-harm and so on and potentially more serious where people who for example come from countries or religions with repressive views on things like homosexuality with potentially deadly consequences could be exposed.
That isn't touching on the unintended consequences - within a generation people including children will likely be trivially circumventing it leading to attempts to double down with likely legislation against VPNs, etc. which then motivates the development of "super TOR" like systems which there isn't the incentive and audience to make a reality currently which will be a nightmare for law enforcement leading to calls to lock the internet down further...
Meanwhile little has actually been accomplished to protect children.
Sometimes it is better to let sleeping dogs lie for want of a better way to put it and find other approaches albeit I have severe doubts that protecting children has much to do with the real aims of this part of the legislation.
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