It’s annoying how effective “for the children” is. That peiole really just turn off their brains for that.

Nobody is doing it just "for the children" - that's just a fig-leaf justification for doing what many people want anyway: surveillance, tracking, and censorship (of other people, of course - just the bad ones doing/saying bad things).

IOW - People aren't turning off their brains about "for the children" - they just want it anyway and don't think any further than that.