That's how the California act works, but we lumped it under "age verification" anyway. If you have to select whether the device is for someone over or under 18 in a drop-down menu, apparently that's "age verification"

It likely would! It is also probably the better solution all in all.

However society doesn’t have the stomach for that (yet).

Also, as the article correctly identified, society is gearing up to deal with other types of crime online.