Do you not see that the largest companies on the internet are also surveilling everyone and that the massive troves of data they're collecting about their registered users and even non-registered users is directly and indirectly accessible to governments around the world?

Regardless of the underlying motives and surveillance outcomes, it will surely affect the kids too. So it's worth discussing.

100%, anti-privacy and surveillance laws have always been wrapped in child protection and public safety.

And yet the vast majority of parents are in favour of a ban.

This is obviously about kids. The problem is it requires surveillance. You don't get to decide what it's not about.