This law feels like a battle in The Coming War on General Computation, as Cory Doctorow put it:

> I can see that there will be programs that run on general purpose computers and peripherals that will even freak me out. So I can believe that people who advocate for limiting general purpose computers will find receptive audience for their positions. But just as we saw with the copyright wars, banning certain instructions, or protocols, or messages, will be wholly ineffective as a means of prevention and remedy; and as we saw in the copyright wars, all attempts at controlling PCs will converge on rootkits; all attempts at controlling the Internet will converge on surveillance and censorship, which is why all this stuff matters.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

> all attempts at controlling the Internet will converge on surveillance and censorship, which is why all this stuff matters

it really boils down to this sadly, and it should be pretty obvious shouldn't it?

i'm finding it befuddling that even technical audiences seem to resist connecting those dots, but strong motivated reasoning is at play: these are audiences that will often feel it will be them who will be in control, and they're also emotionally nudged by the idea of child safety