[ls612]

Yeah my example is all EU.

[kelseyfrog]

Is it like an inference or the people of the EU have voiced support like, "We want Chinese government level surveillance"?

[ls612]

No the inference is more along the lines of “getting chinese level surveillance and political control means what the people want suddenly doesn’t matter a whole lot anymore”. Until they get that they need to do something to keep the population on side so they use the boogeymen of child abusers or right wingers as a pretext, but the politicians’ true goal will never change for the reasons I’ve detailed above.