It would be just as easy for an underage American to download pornographic material from Switzerland as it would be to download content from across town. There are no physical boundaries, and this makes it difficult to determine where violations of the law should be prosecuted. There is no one place through which all information passes. It is not necessary to take any specific route, but rather any outlet is accessible for information being sent over the land. Another aspect that would make censoring the Internet burdensome is the fact that it is based on anonymity.
Nothing is known for certain about someone accessing content.
Because there are no signatures or photo ID's, it is hard to authenticate that illegal activities, such as minors accessing restricted data, are taking place. A thirteen year old boy in the United States could easily access or download pornographic material on a site in France. The site may contain warnings and age restraints, but the service providers have no way of halting the boy's activity if he claims he is twenty-one years of age when prompted. Posing another problem in censoring the Internet is the complexity in the way information is passed around the Internet. If information has been posted, deleting this material becomes almost impossible.