If I've ever seen a manipulative canard for online censorship and increased surveillance, it's this notion that digital platforms need to actively "protect" kid

If I've ever seen a manipulative canard for online censorship and increased surveillance, it's this notion that digital platforms need to actively "protect" kids from accessing supposedly harmful content through ID checks, age verifications and other monitoring tools. Can none of you see that for what it is and all the avenues for bureaucratic/regulatory abuses that it presents? Aside from Zuckerberg being a scumbag in assorted ways, the politicians and private groups rooting for these sorts of enforcement mechanisms are either foolish or pandering in one cynically grotesque way to absurd moral scares that will do nothing to make the internet much safer, better or more free.