Entirely this. Using “protecting the children” as a platform to gain more surveillance powers comes off real fucking deadpan when there’s the whole exposed rich cabal of paedophiles operating basically in the open that nobody’s doing anything more than symbolic gestures about…

Even if their names aren’t public due to all the redactions, the Governments of the world most certainly know who these people are and could absolutely pursue their arrest, but simply just won’t.

It’s clearly a moral panic. Refocusing the energy generated by the Epstein revelations into something that will only make kids more vulnerable.