> The platforms have followed the letter of the law because they know that doing so is important in the UK. However, that doesn’t explain why they haven’t simpl

> The platforms have followed the letter of the law because they know that doing so is important in the UK. However, that doesn’t explain why they haven’t simply integrated the required changes in the UK only, and kept their products and services the same elsewhere. Because people are apathetic about their own privacy, but parents are hyper-sensitive to any threat to their children, even imaginary ones, which is why governments always use children as the rationale to justify more surveillance and encryption backdoors. The tech companies don't want that protective impulse to be the trigger that would create a mass movement, which would invariably go much, much further than simply protecting children.