The toughening discussed in that article entirely applies to protections for children themselves on social media - requiring limits to stop them seeing harmful

The toughening discussed in that article entirely applies to protections for children themselves on social media - requiring limits to stop them seeing harmful content. An interesting debatable question, but not related to the encryption & communication security concerns being discussed here. Also, from a political POV, they're clearly incentivized to say that what the government is doing is wrong, in all cases - that doesn't necessarily imply that's exactly what they'd actually do in practice (when they too would have to deal with industry backlash directly). If they have publicly stated somewhere that they'd like to create tougher controls, banning or limiting security tools like encryption I'd be interested to see more information, but I haven't seen any obvious discussion of that.