It could simply be the same basic authoritarian instinct shared by governments everywhere. We don’t like this thing that’s happening, therefore we pass a law saying it can’t happen. Technical details of why that won’t work are not important, and are probably invented by obstinate malcontents. Just do it.
That requires some form of incompetence. The sneakiness of introducing voluntary chat control that stops being voluntary in the fine print but isn’t discussed by the media suggests that some people are putting in serious effort. An incompetent person would know about VPNs only years after age verification became active law.
In this area, where there is so much evidence of conspiracy, I tend towards conspiracy theory: The incompetent and the ignorant whose names we know are being guided and manipulated by lobbyists and psychopaths with secret motivations who know exactly what they’re doing.
It could simply be the same basic authoritarian instinct shared by governments everywhere. We don’t like this thing that’s happening, therefore we pass a law saying it can’t happen. Technical details of why that won’t work are not important, and are probably invented by obstinate malcontents. Just do it.
That requires some form of incompetence. The sneakiness of introducing voluntary chat control that stops being voluntary in the fine print but isn’t discussed by the media suggests that some people are putting in serious effort. An incompetent person would know about VPNs only years after age verification became active law.
In this area, where there is so much evidence of conspiracy, I tend towards conspiracy theory: The incompetent and the ignorant whose names we know are being guided and manipulated by lobbyists and psychopaths with secret motivations who know exactly what they’re doing.