Not at all. The parent describes pretty succinctly how a liberal democratic society can chip away, over time, at some of its core values in order to go after "the bad guys". The bad guys in this instance are sex traffickers. But who knows who the next "bad guys" will be. Think of it this way - these guys built something that collects online behavior and checks it against known behaviors, catalogs "suspicious" listing activity, unmasks phone numbers etc (on a technical level, could someone add to the specifics of how this works?). In this case it's being used to target sex trafficking. But could it not also be used in less progressive countries to target minority community behavior? Could Russia, already with a history of discrimination against the LGBT community, use it to find and target those members?
Edit: I don't mean that Russia could literally use this company's product. I meant the principle.
Nothing warped about it, it's historically demonstrable. Emotional pleas are very effective at dulling an otherwise abrasive proposal. Think of how much complacency U.S. citizens yielded any time terrorism invoked.
If someone said they had software that analyzed these same sites but provided no reason or impetus, a lot more eyebrows would be raised. When you say it's to protect children, there's an (expected) emotional response that makes this sort of thing easier to digest.
