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by 9x39 128 days ago
> I think they genuinely want to protect kids, and the privacy destruction is driven by a combination of not caring and not understanding.

Advancing a case for a precedent-creating decision is a well-known tactic for creating the environment of success you want for a separate goal.

It's possible you can find a genuine belief in the people who advance the cause. Charitably, they're perhaps naive or coincidentally aligned, and uncharitably sometimes useful idiots who are brought in-line directly or indirectly with various powerful donors' causes.