The prospect of fewer children in your face online is of obvious benefit to those that find it so. In the experience of many, children don’t pop up online all that often.
The drive is clearly to promote child welfare by limiting scope for conflict between the pathways of the innocent and the perverse. A block on user-generated content is then proposed as the best format.
The elimination of children isn’t the point, but blocking children won’t reduce the paedophile population by a single percent. This only comes by concerted policing, and not by moving children out of the way.
The best in international law enforcement say that funding for anti-perversion units is proving more beneficial than tweaking settings, either on phones or in offices.
The aggressive sub-culture that is child abuse has hideaways and hiddenness in public realms that cannot easily be found. Soft touches won’t expose them, but hard facts and effort always thwarts it.
