What the fuck is going on in EU

Back in 2018, the US (at request of more radical Christian communities) passed a series of laws called FOSTA and SESTA. They penalized websites that allowed illegal sex acts. Because the laws needed clear definitions of what "illegal sex acts" are, the US started a brief window of trying to write that into law. It wasn't that significant, mostly CSAM and related stuff.

However, due to these laws being passed during the middle of the UK trying to leave the EU, the UK started patterning a lot of their policies after what the US was doing instead of Europe. Significantly, they didn't stop at CSAM. They also started to make things like violence against women illegal. And, obviously, that sounds good, but when trying to explore that in legal terms, it started banning a lot of things like consensually filmed pornography that included things such as BDSM. Much of the framework for these bans were put in place, but things reverted to a more lenient state.

As we look at more recent trends with laws, there has been a push for internet safety, but no one really having good ideas on how to implement it. Politicians, especially ones who don't know how the internet works, have found the best way to go about these policies is to use existing frameworks like the above and putting burden and penalty on the service providers. It comes from a lot of the logic of "video games train kids to become mass shooters".

There is a major belief in conservative communities that parents should have the unquestioned authority and right to control every aspect of their child's life. They are property and not human. Most laws about child safety is usually about maintaining control for parents. This is just the primary topic of a much larger problem going back decades. Sex ed, school choice, LGBTQ media, it's not about protecting kids, it's about controlling them and their worlds.