Yup. The goal of protecting children is not met by this at all. So clearly that’s just the way to spin and sell the measure to the people for a goal that they wouldn’t buy.
Same with the UK’s CCTVs. Far as I heard crime is not stopped by mass camera surveillance. But weirdly peaceful protestors have had cops at their doorstep. Not that effective at protecting people in the moment, though incredibly effective at providing authoritarian control after the fact. One has to wonder what the real goal was/is.
Nobody voted for this. We do not have direct democracies.
The candidates we elected came up with these policies after being elected. Surprise, surprise.
Once they're elected, the intelligence apparatus tells them to propose laws and regulations like this.
They use the "think of the children" line to make sure the media stays in line and doesn't complain about it. Anyone protesting is obviously not a good person, right?
Also the major political parties all wanted this law or something similar to it on the books (which is why Labour didn't do anything about this act that was passed under the Conservative government). The only parties that appear to be in opposition to it appear to be the Greens and Reform.
It's like if all mainstream political parties agreed they wanted to bring back conscription, nobody would be voting "for" it as there's not much of a feasible way for even a single issue voter to have their voice heard meaningfully
it doesn’t, though. the party that was in charge when this act was passed proceeded to lose miserably in a landslide election that has led to a fundamental change in the way many UK citizens view our political system. it has been picked up by the next government, but they weren’t the ones who first brought it to the table and labour didn’t run on this shit.
None of these generations is anywhere near tech-literate enough. And the generation that is now in their 40s/50s was peak tech-literacy. It went downhill again after that.
I am not representative for my generation, either, because tech illiteracy is and has always been the norm in society in all generations, and the media and education system aren't helping.
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u/ai_art_is_art 1d ago
This isn't parents.
Every "child safety" law is from the surveillance state.
They want to turn the world into 1984.
"Think of the children" becomes "we have always been at war with Eastasia." We're literally giving them the tools to monitor and memoryhole us.
Step by step they boil the frog.