alt Hacker News> Chat controls, government controls - are coming.
Not if the people continue to fight off each attempt. Looks like we may be winning this round. Each time we win this battle, the opposition becomes better organized/funded and citizens become more aware of what is going on. Each subsequent push will have less chance of success once we pass a key threshold; it seems to me that this may be the last big push, if we win here then the public won’t back future attempts. Then your only option to pass this will be removing democracy altogether.
I think you are underestimating how paranoid people are about "pedophiles. It's been used by politicians more and more to create a climate of fear so they can justify a more authoritian set up.
Because I promise you there are people who would give up a great of deal to solve child sex abuse crimes.
They just don't understand the actual risks due to manipulation