> Meme driven politics.

It's very much NOT meme driven. We're generally very sensitive to child abuse in Denmark, and even singular cases are usually enough to establish pretty wide bureaucratic systems.

Originally, she launched the "branding" push when they were talking about schools and daycare, but like all branding it spills out into other avenues. I have no doubt she weighs her job around children particularly important.

It's not at all a stretch to me to say that she probably genuinely wanted her party colleague, and CSAM enjoyer, caught faster, and I don't doubt that she believes this is the best way to do that.

That's not a "meme". That's policy driven by observation and factual cases.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

> and even singular cases are usually enough to establish pretty wide bureaucratic systems.

This is what the parent commenter meant by “meme-driven”: When singular cases can be turned into an idea that is shared and occupies a disproportionate amount of attention because it gets packaged into a simple idea that is easily shared and repeated.

If a building collapses or a plane crashes that’s a singular case, but the ensuing investigation will be used to enact policy changes based on what went wrong to prevent it happening again. It only becomes ‘meme-driven’ when it deviates from what should be a mundane bureaucratic process, which can include blocking the process as much as putting fingers on the scales.

The parent commentor is the one making it "meme-driven". It is not a meme to advocate for protecting children from actual real life pedophiles.

Real life is not a meme.

They're using the original definition of meme, not the more generally understood meaning for the word today, i.e. a joke.

Meme is a thought virus, so yes "protect the children" is a meme. Politics in democracies is largely driven by such memes.

What is being advocated is not protecting children, it's the establishment of a mass surveillance state that's every single dictator's wet dream, without any understanding of how trivial it will be for criminals to coordinate and share CSAM in other ways.

If that's not a meme("bUt tHiNK oF THe cHilDRen!!11") I don't know what is.