Comment by protocolture

Nuance is the problem, we have been experiencing death by small degrees thanks to giving lots of small wins to politicians.

Government is these days largely solved, and for politicians that's a horrendous untenable situation, so they have to keep inventing problems to solve.

All they do is stack law on law on law for no discernible public good, with only negative outcomes.

The problem is the framing of the problem. Its not "How to protect kids online". The problem is "how to protect everyones freedoms online". And the only way to do that is to say absolutely not, every single time this shit comes up.

And its disingenuous to say the least, to assume that these tools are only coming for kids on social media. These tools are coming everywhere, to everyone. You just let them in because they played the old "wont someone please think about the children" song and dance. This exact nonsense was how we got the eSafety commissioner, who was brought in with a mandate to scrub the video footage of the christchurch massacre off of the internet. Of course, now they spend a large amount of time and money trying to get all sorts of posts scrubbed off the internet, often in jurisdictions that have free speech mandates.