All these patchwork legislation needs to be joined up, we need to make an internet that is both safe for children and also that they don't get put in a cesspit on their 16th birthday. I first got internet when I was 13 in and I grew up with a mostly unfiltered internet that exposed me to a lot of messed up stuff like goatse, violent hentai and gore a lot of it posted on Slashdot as well, it really affected my mental health and I still suffer from really bad dreams over 20 years later.
As long as there is not a global consensus, the VPN loophole will still exist, so we need all countries to cooperate in matters like this. If big tech is serious they need to implement the ban worldwide now otherwise they are complicit in ruining peoples lives.