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The second statement is why the first one exists. None of this is about protecting children, it's all about data gathering and monitoring people. They don't give a fuck about children. But the idea that they can have a government enforced reason to collect personal data, be able to reliably tie that to accounts and then use that data to sell targeted marketing, that's something they will bend over backwards for.
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look no further than the actual "department of justice" refusing to go after anyone in the epstein files and treating maxwell like a guest of honor. literal child rapists facing zero consequences. anyone who thinks the government or any of these tech corps give a rat's ass about their kids is fucking braindead
This is why there is a meme about "won't someone think of the children," which is most often aimed at right-wing actions. They use the idea of helping to further causes that do the opposite.
It's not just the right. Look way back to the Tipper Gore push for censorship of rock music. The advocates of free speech came out then to show why blocking speech doesn't work and ends up hurting more than it could ever help. For those too young to remember or who haven't heard about it, you ought to look into the Congressional hearings videos. Especially where they asked John Denver to speak on behalf of the censorship move, and were shocked when he was fully against it.