Oh and btw you know how unregulated TV had been since its inception? Channels would increasingly broadcast content not suitable for children, and once the parents got a TV the only thing that'd stop children from looking at those late hour programs were the parents trying to control their viewing activities and bedtime.

Where were the boomers for all those many decades?

Listen I don't agree with putting anything other than porn behind this, but the whole slippery slope argument needs to die on this.

The fact that other things aside from what you agree are already behind this, confirms that there's a slippery slope lmfao
Do you even hear yourself talk.

The internet has only existed for 30 years and believe it or not people in the 1980s did not live in an authoritarian hellscape. 1984 is not an accurate depiction of what the pre-internet world was like.

What is this absolute incoherent gibberish point?
First we're not talking about a future without the internet, on the contrary.
Also no one ever mistook 1984 for a contemporary documentary, wth are you even arguing against here?

Just because boomer-run governments dropped the ball on regulating the internet when it first came out doesn't mean it's some sort of nefarious scheme that they're finally getting around to it now.

There are 2 levels to this – for 1, the internet can be one of those spooky future techs that makes surveillance and population enslavement more feasible at more extreme levels (along with cameras and mikes, instant communication, and other stuff), so people are reasonably wary of any attempts to bring about or enable such dystopian scenarios, and make things worse than the pre-internet status quo.

On the other hand however, the internet, insta-comm, and obviously AI-aided mass data storage too, also have an utopian potential – enabling enhanced resistance against power grab attempts or tyrannies, for instance.
The enhancement of anonymity is one of those improvements (not without some dark sides of course, in some types of cases), both in that context as well as in casual personal everyday ones, that people don't want to lose now. They don't want all of their internet, or their favorite parts of it, to become as controlled and regulated as stores or old media, or as traceable as phone communication.

So thanks to those "boomers dropping the ball" some improvements happened, and damn right people don't want those rolled back and undone lol

And then a 3rd level to this is that if they HAD been regulating it on a particular level since the start, there hadn't been any anonymity, everything had been ID'd and traceable and transparent since the start,
then while some might've been disappointed with that, or tried to bring about changes in the desired anonymous wild west direction, but they would've still treated it the way it is and been as wary and discreet with its usage as they've always been in public, in official or commercial interaction, in certain limited computer/internet contexts like social media or "their work computer", or to a lesser extent when on the phone.
And of course in turn, had they known that phone conversations would be logged and recorded in some archive accessible by the government and vulnerable to criminals, they would've always behaved more discreetly during all their phone conversations as well.

So then it turns out that this medium they had been using under the impression or with assurances of a certain level of privacy or anonymity, had in fact been much less so the whole time, or maybe starting at some point – and/or that there are plans to now make it retroactively less private, so all their indiscreet activities which had been recorded but so far stored in some way that was effectively inaccessible to any peeping toms or too difficult to sift through, will now become accessible, put into a searchable organized library, and get looked into.
Or a potential connection between their "medium identity" and real identity will now be made real, closing a previously protective gap and retroactively making your past actions more traceable to your real identity.

In simple terms that's like assuring someone that there's no surveillance camera in this room, in their home, and then it turns out there was. And now they're working on ways to collect and organize all that accumulated footage.
Oh hey if you live on a high enough level you can leave the curtains open no problem! Btw we've been flying drones and filming all your stuff all this time.

Hey some boomers had neglected collecting all that footage, but now we're making up for that at last so what are you grumpy about eh?

So yeah those are 3 points that you apparently hadn't been conscious or aware of before this thread, but now you ought to have caught up.