Almost like there's a push from powerful people to get this passed as soon as possible

Once the right have managed to get this law passed, they'll go back to not caring about the kids again. It's infuriating now often they get away with this scam.

I was a kid back when most adults thought that computers what operated by tiny pixies and computer mice had three buttons. We had a content filter on the school computers that could be circumvented by not typing www. at the beginning of a URL. I could have seen all sorts of inappropriate content if I had wanted, but I didn't because I was 12 so I just used it to play RuneScape. The kids are alright, it's the adults that are all messed up.

Yes but also these people, especially the likes of Donald Trump, don't really understand how the world works so all their plans for controlling it never come off, because things that would be blindingly obvious to most people, are utterly obtrused to them.

You know like the idea that people would just not use privacy invading applications. How many people do you think have actually submitted their IDs versus have just downloaded a VPN or convented their controls in other ways? Then they'll make VPNs illegal and think that they've in some way achieved something, but they will always be a workaround for their authority, because the people they are trying to control are smarter than them.