This isn't really true. Many of the AV advocates sincerely want to "protect" children. Their idea of "protection" is in fact actively damaging on net, but they

This isn't really true. Many of the AV advocates sincerely want to "protect" children. Their idea of "protection" is in fact actively damaging on net, but they truly are obsessed with the boogeymen they keep hearing about in propaganda. Their moral panic is sincere, and more or less wipes their consciousness of any concern about collateral damange to children or adults. There are of course also people who are in it for the universal surveillance and see the others as useful idiots, but the idiots are genuine.