The government doesn't care about a hamster forum. The entire point is that they don't care enough about the unintended consequences of their constant power grabs. They don't care about the kids either. They just need a way to paint every individual as a criminal so they have an excuse to exercise their monopoly on violence.
Any censorship resistant rebuild of that hamster site will be paraded around as proof that it was really a CSAM site in disguise all along.
The hamster forum (like many other forums, that one is just the one the papers could make a clickable/shareable story focusing on) isn't being shut down by the government. They are shutting themselves down as they do not want to run the risk of accidentally breaking the law which are so vague that they arent even sure what moderation decisions are to be made. And probably because it requires constant supervision. Just fyi.
It pushes all communication into approved and surveiled channels, the existing big players. A win for govt, and a win for Big tech because they get more eyeballs to feed ads.
