I'm convinced that child safety isn't the actual motivation. Creating a child-safe Internet after the fact is a fool's errand. Moral or not, if it's not a whitelist-based site or content filtering approach, it's child safety theater.

Political actors are newly desperate to get tools of control in place for other uses. Child safety is merely the convenient tool for inserting the tip of the wedge.

This is all happening now because politicians are unwilling to push back against any kind of child safety legislation. People are hyper-vigilant over signals that connect politicians to Epstein, and that makes the politicians anxious. This situation presented a rare opportunity.