Many of my oppressive country's laws are introduced under pretext "save the children". For example, public discourse of homosexuality is essentially banned, because otherwise underdeveloped minors might get involuntarily exposed to it (and supposedly get psychologically traumatized). Then another law allows banning websites that talk about drugs, LGBT, opposition protests etc. without court order, to save children from being involved in those traumatizing things of course (now it's used to ban opposition sites). And it's hard to argue against it, because you are pushed back, "what, you hate kids? you don't want them to be safe?" It's a clever ugly trick, because most adults are parents, their parental instincts kick in, hearing about all that abuse, and they will support any cause that'll make their kids safer
I'm not saying Apple is definitively involved in some shady stuff, but from my perspective, it does look like NSA forced them to do some sort of file scanning backdoor and they came up with this "it's about saving the children" explanation, already successfully in use in oppressive countries.
I'm not saying Apple is definitively involved in some shady stuff, but from my perspective, it does look like NSA forced them to do some sort of file scanning backdoor and they came up with this "it's about saving the children" explanation, already successfully in use in oppressive countries.