Alcohol is a perfect example as well, because I personally drink it only occasionally but would very much rather see it completely banned, as I think it would solve a lot of problems with society. In reality it likely wouldn’t, but the gut feeling is there. If I were to blindly follow my instinct and not know history, I would call for a total ban on it to protect the children.
The same is happening here, but at a much more dangerous level.
As someone who has been a kid, I would call such restrictions "performative" rather than a "good idea".
I'll advocate for freedom of speech but I don't want to have to listen to everything.
Alas, I have no choice in the matter, but I would very much prefer I did.
While I understand some content HAS to be regulated (CSAM) doesn’t mean everything has to be, because inevitably that will devolve into the government policing wrongthink.
Nobody is preventing you from filtering out at the client side whatever it is that you don't want to hear.
That said, I think the showdead setting in HN is good to have, so you can still opt to see content that would otherwise be filtered.
Except that's exactly what is happening when the "moderation" is mandated by law. Which is the topic of discussion here.
But yes, in a world where "moderation" is mandated by law, there'd be no alternatives.
Meanwhile your children are absolutely going to find a way to get that content regardless, likely in darker corners of the internet, exposing them to much, MUCH worse content than if they would have just gone on the good old hub (plus actual predators) while also making it basically impossible for you to control instead of just making it a firewall rule away from locking it yourself instead of letting the government do it.