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by einpoklum 1304 days ago
> Protecting children is important.

Google protecting children is not important.

> This man is innocent of doing anything wrong

He is not entirely without fault: He negligently enabled surveillance of his personal files, including allowing Google to make copies of his son's genitalia / his son's private personal medicall information. He's not exactly innocent - but of course, his misdeed is not vis-a-vis the state or Google, but vis-a-vis his son, his wife and himself.

> We allow the state power to protect children

You don't allow the state anything. The state allows itself and you pretend we control the state because we get to make some choices via elections every once in a while.