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It's more like some people saw an opportunity in selling China-style online censorship to other governments. They just needed convincing stories to sell.
Stories of children being groomed with internet porn and calling for mass censorship. Stories of the stars of internet porn regretting it and calling for mass censorship. Stories of terror attacks being organized on the internet. Stories of awful chatrooms.
So now anyone wanting to oppose your censorship is a nazi islamist pedophile jerking off to CSAM in their mother's basement.
And it won't end with banning the most disgusting and gory lolicon hentai. It won't even stop with banning porn. It will end with things being banned because some Trump, Orbán, Putin-class dictator didn't like it, and the chatbot spat out some reasonable sounding argument that supported it beyond "the glorious leader didn't like this".
Europe has been working this protecting children from predators angle for at least two decades, to weaken any sort of encryption or anonymity and allow more state surveillance.
This isn't something new, it's just that now they think they can get away with doing their worst, knowing just how fucked our voters are in the head as their political parties are all captured by oligarchs.
Yep, nothing new, just more of the same shit. https://youtu.be/gmqwn4Gx_fw
An argument can be made for anything
As I said a few months ago, don't be shocked if the usa pulls a 'great firewall' out of its ass soon. They saw China's social credit system and decided they wanted that for themselves
Imagine being so stupid you fall for that astroturf nonsense.
https://lemmy.world/post/6893490