Comment by bluGill
2 days ago
These laws also won't work. Kids are smart, and it only takes one to figure out a bypass and all kids in the school know (and they pass it to other schools).
2 days ago
These laws also won't work. Kids are smart, and it only takes one to figure out a bypass and all kids in the school know (and they pass it to other schools).
The purpose of the law is to surveil adults.
Nobody actually cares about children, they're just political weapons used to justify everything they want to do. Everybody knows only literal child rapists would ever dare to argue against child protection laws.
There is no surveillance in this law - please stop spreading FUD. Some other laws in other places, with similar stated purposes, mandate surveillance.
I'll say it again: the purpose of these laws as a whole is to surveil adults.
Even if this specific law isn't doing that right now, it's quite easy to see how it will eventually. Without surveillance, the law is ineffective. All you need to do is generate some moral outrage at how the children are supposedly bypassing the insecure system and bam, instant scope expansion.
Look at the metagame being played over the long term. It's got nothing to do with children and everything to do with control.
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Lots of things are illegal but people still do them anyway. Sometimes the law succeeds if it only reduces the prevalence of something. People drove 100, the speed limit was set to 50, people now drive 65. Was the speed limit successful? It depends how you define success.