[PurpleRamen]

> "Why now?"

Because they worked on it for decades, and it's finally showing results.

> I've seen every age of the Internet, and there's always been widely available pornographic materials.

Just because something bad happened in the past, we should stay away from fixing it? Just because you didn't (probably) suffer as much as others, we should continue looking away? And that's leaving out that the world on all levels and corners today has become significant worse than in your youth.

> Why all of a sudden is this a crisis?

It's not all of a sudden. The calls' haven been around for a decade and longer, but research has become better over the years, so it's harder to ignore them. And now there is also AI, which significant speeds up the spreading of fake news, bot messages, sexualized deep fakes, and other very problematic content.