I thought that Hexbear wasn’t going to federate with lemmy.world to begin with, but apparently it was according to this archived version of the post announcing the federation. Yeah my bad :)
None of these politcians who push for all those “protect the children” laws actually gives a shit about child safety. The only thing that such laws mange to do is restrict freedom of speech and expression for everyone including children.
If you are a careless parent, then no law is going prevent your kids from watching porn.
It can be used to track your movements even without internet connection.