These laws are not made to protect kids, but to amass power over the people.

Problem is its not actually about the children. As always they're the excuse. The UK Government will stoop to almost any excuse possible to give itself more surveillance powers - it took 1984 as a goal rather than a warning.

Or teaching parents how to parent properly, or cracking down on addictive social media algorithms, or researching the ill affects of pornography, or providing counseling to teens and adults harmed by dangerous materials.

One of the porn sites I visit has a pop up when the home page first loads that says

If you have children, implement parental controls.

And a link to a guide for how to do that.