It is important that any discussion that leads with "think of the children" is immediately turned into "Yes, let's think of the children. Here is a four point p

It is important that any discussion that leads with "think of the children" is immediately turned into "Yes, let's think of the children. Here is a four point plan to address poverty, systemic racism, education and opportunity..." "Oh, but this is free and those things cost billions of pounds!" Actually no, this is not free. This prevents protecting banking. It prevents protecting oil pipelines. The cost of breakable encryption is billions or trillions. My brother spent several years doing legal aid in the UK, and my mum is on children's panels. There's plenty the government can do to reduce child abuse that doesn't involve encryption, but it chooses not to. So here we have one group that is looking at a visual evidence of child abuse, and determining that we should not have encryption because then we wont have visual evidence of child abuse - as if child abuse started in 1993. Another that runs a business which makes the claim of having identified hundreds of child predators and informed the FBI - with no fact checking from the BBC or presumption of innocence or linking to other stories of AI bias... Meanwhile, there are no social workers. No teachers. No opportunity besides crime. And is killing a kid child abuse? What if the kid is black, and the police did it? Here's the test: sure, government, here's a list of things you can do to stop child abuse. Encryption is last on the list. You can get to that after you've addresses all the other, vastly larger, problems.