🧩 BND Motif Index · M293
Think of the children
Children's safety is invoked to justify regulating, policing or censoring something, the internet above all, and critics answer that the children are only the excuse for surveillance and control: Helen Lovejoy's 'Won't somebody please think of the children?'
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Surveillance and privacy
- 1claim filed under it
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-05 “The internet is unsafe for children and needs regulation to protect them from harmful content and doxxing.” 🧶 people online
M293 · first seen 2026-10-05 · what this is · how the index works