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>I have not seen any evidence that it is a serious problem in that it has significant impact at a societal level.

>Let's not forget that the same people that propose these bills are the ones hanging out at Epstein's private island.

The implication in the last sentence of your comment would seem to contradict your initial premise.

There are only a few hundred people in Congress. Even if all of them were partaking this still wouldn't be a societal impact level issue.

Your comment seemed to imply that a network of pedophiles in Congress was tailoring these laws specifically to weaken law enforcement's ability to prosecute people like them. That would certainly lead to a societal impact, as it would by design empower and entrench child pornographers and pedophiles across the board.

Ah I see. What I meant to express was that based on the fact that there appears to be a higher preponderance of child abusers among the rich and powerful, it's unlikely that actions they take are actually "to protect the children"

What if they wanted to deflect attention from themselves to large numbers of relatively minor criminals?

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