Come on people, that old “and the children?” trope? Australian government is really embarrassing some times Oh I tend to flag those arguments as BS but you can

Come on people, that old “and the children?” trope? Australian government is really embarrassing some times Oh I tend to flag those arguments as BS but you can never count them out. The problem is aside from the perfunctory, the strained and straight-up-false claims, there are a few places and context where children do need protection and some people quite determined to victimized them - and naturally people strongly emotionally invest where the protection is needed. And that creates a degree leverage that can be even when an audience is sophisticated - look at the many people defending Apple's neural hash absurdity here (risks re-litigating it but sure). Oh, and the way "think of children" is every censor and snoop's cry tend to detract from useful ways of protecting children (most of which don't have to with lots more electronic surveillance).