Many people are being naive when they assume any of these “protecting the children” efforts happening all around the western world effectively simultaneously are actually about the children.
The question is how do you implement “Chinese style censorship and social credit score” without overtly doing it, you do it the same way that all infringements on freedoms and rights have always been implemented all across the West for 100+ years, you invert, reframe it, and implement amidst cheers, and jeers towards anyone who is not also being virtuous through conformance.
Some believe the COVID prison-term lockdowns were a test to gauge the reaction and conformity of the actions taken. Maybe it was or maybe it wasn’t, but it may as well have been, because the warriors apparatchiks and wardens of conformity operated nicely to deprive their own human rights as well as those of others.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” It may as well end with “…tolerate atrocities.”
My interpretation has always been that they've looked across the sea at the CCP and North Korean regime, and asked, in a whiney tone, "why do they get all the nice things?"
So the GoBeRnMeNt is bad but the megacorps printing money shovelling thousands of hours of fully automated brain rot content to your kids are good because .... freedom ?
I still fail to see any logic in these conspiracy theories