> This is not an ask from or concern of the general population.

It isn’t, but when asked in a “Do you support saving children?” way a lot of people do support it. You might say that’s idiotic, and you’re right, but any campaign to reverse this stuff has to reckon with it.

Anyone who asks that is arguing in bad faith and using children as political weapons to achieve their ends. It's gotten to the point I outright dismiss anything the politicians say the second I hear the words "children" and "terrorists".

Ditto for "do you want more secure software?" It turns out people don't realise that also means making software secured against their will.

Every authoritarian regime relies on large numbers of useful idiots.