Is there actually a massive problem that they are trying to solve with this?

Yes. The problem is the pseudo anonymous internet makes it harder to control the population :/

People are saying mean things on Twitter, or even disagreeing with government-approved opinions! They're making 12000 speech arrests per year, but there's still far too many slipping through the cracks.

Yes: somewhat cynically, they want their democratically elected affiliate party to remain in government (or they just enjoy popular support themselves) and so when the majority of people think protectin the childrun is good, you should demonstrate your purity spiraling by proposing and going along with anything that supports such an aim. You’d want to vote for that, right? I mean, the kids, right?!

If it's anything like Australia, then yes - here the conservative major party hates the interent because it has taken so much away from their massive donor and supporters' businesses (mostly legacy media - Murdoch's News Ltd, Nine Entertainment, etc.), and the more "progressive" major party (left of the Overton window but objectively fairly centre-right) hates it because actual progressives there shoot down all their hypocrisy and they can't control the narrative at all.

They both want to go back to the days of billionare-controlled media setting and driving the narrative, because they know how to influence that (or in Labor's case, think they know but they always fail to, despite sucking up to the media). So they dispose the Internet and social media.

Maybe yes but the ulterior motive behind these "solutions" is pretty obvious. Rip anonymity from the internet, one step forward towards Telescreens.

It's usually the children's safety, porn, piracy or protection from some foreign enemy. But does it really matter?

Yes, their previous dumb law doesn't work because there are easy free VPNs available (e.g. Proton).

Yes, human rights.

The pedos in charge want to crack down on other pedos getting to their prey first. Prove me wrong.

Extremism.

Yes, they don't have enough power yet, and all governments currently have the same problem so I expect to see much more of this nonsense.

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