The UK spent the last weekend arresting hundreds of people for holding up signs with the words "Palestine Action" on them, while ignoring people marching around and giving Hitler salutes.

Anyone expecting sanity from the UK on this topic is being somewhat optimistic.

To reiterate - this is not about protecting kids. If it was about protecting kids it would be trivial to set up a blacklist of the most popular porn sites that need ID as a first step, and worry about other sites - like Wikipedia - later.

This is about setting up a mechanism for mass surveillance of future dissent.

The "think of the kids" argument is a Trojan horse - a standard and predictable populist appeal to protective emotions.