It is such a transparent attempt to submit us to an all encompassing surveillance by new spying tools, at least to those of us in reality. The argument that it is to protect children probably gets a good laugh when they are having a drink talking about playing the sheep.

They've been using that argument in europe for like decades too. I remember those arguments to argue for more surveillance in the 00's. Now the technology allows them to do a lot worse with it though, and the population and governments are dumb and corrupted and cynical enough to surrender freedom to technofascists as long as they cut them in on the information and give them some control in doing so, in the case of the government.

Citizens are just dumber, more misguided somehow, I seriously think there is some pollutant that is systematically affecting our judgement, fear, and trust, and inhibiting it. Because past generations wouldn't have stood for any of this, and they didn't.