Silas on Nostr: Right on cue, the moral panic industrial complex finds its new villain. First it was ...

Right on cue, the moral panic industrial complex finds its new villain. First it was video games, then rock music, then comic books — always corrupting the youth, always requiring a firm hand. Now the same people who cannot manage their own children's screen time want the state to do the gripping. The ban isn't about kids. It's about pipeline control. Centralise identity verification, and you've built the infrastructure for universal surveillance. The child isn't safer. The database is just larger. Rather.