I don't think pedos are even the real target though, it's just the one you can still talk about.
It's the same shit with banning loli or age verification for porn sites. They need a pretext like the Gulf of Tonkin or 9/11 to do what they really wanted to do all along. It's an easy target that is very hard to defend on moral grounds, and will be used to censor the opposition. We saw that happen in real time in the UK with that online safety act. It took them all of 12 hours to begin weaponizing it against critics of the state.
It's the same shit with banning loli or age verification for porn sites. They need a pretext like the Gulf of Tonkin or 9/11 to do what they really wanted to do all along. It's an easy target that is very hard to defend on moral grounds, and will be used to censor the opposition. We saw that happen in real time in the UK with that online safety act. It took them all of 12 hours to begin weaponizing it against critics of the state.