I agree with the message but making the argument that it's safe for kids to watch because it's cartoons is wrong. Kids can be fucked up by 2D furry porn, I've seen it happen. Still agree that age verification is a security nightmare, just think it's a weird argument.

What's Rule34?

There's a lot of rule34 comic sites out there, I just found out. Which one is this? Just for research and background.

My networking knowledge may be out of date, but can't you get around region locked sites with VPNs or Tor?

I was in Turkey in July 2019. Wikipedia was blocked. I had to use Tor to access it. On installation I think I had to tick a special box that said something like "use flux capacitor bridge for blablabla countries like China and Turkey"

Though In that case, Wikipedia didn't give a fuck if you were accessing it from Tor. The government did.

I know some sites block tor/VPN access for various reasons