Catching child predators is always the tip of the sword in the advancing frontier of surveillance. It just so happens that it's a cover for outsourcing and sca

Catching child predators is always the tip of the sword in the advancing frontier of surveillance. It just so happens that it's a cover for outsourcing and scaling up the intelligence apparatus's ability to track everyone, everywhere, all the time. Just in case they do something really bad like steal state secrets or try to blow the whistle on a crime committed by a powerful person. It's always about cover stories for the state's unrelenting paranoia.