The same governments pushing for this type of regulation are also the ones that fail to condemn high profile individuals involved in the crimes that these regulation are supposed to help fight. Makes you really wonder if it's about protecting the children.

You make it sound as though this is a proposal for legislation in the US...

There are plenty of friends of that one famous financier roaming the old continent, who probably won't ever see a courtroom or prison cell in their lifetime, despite a lot of incriminating evidence.

It was never about children. They're just using children as political weapons to justify their 1984 panopticon dictatorships.