No the inference is more along the lines of “getting chinese level surveillance and political control means what the people want suddenly doesn’t matter a whole

No the inference is more along the lines of “getting chinese level surveillance and political control means what the people want suddenly doesn’t matter a whole lot anymore”. Until they get that they need to do something to keep the population on side so they use the boogeymen of child abusers or right wingers as a pretext, but the politicians’ true goal will never change for the reasons I’ve detailed above.