> The other side of the coin is that criminals are using E2EE communication systems to share sexual abuse material in ways and at rates which they were not prev

> The other side of the coin is that criminals are using E2EE communication systems to share sexual abuse material in ways and at rates which they were not previously able to. You mean at rates greater than in the 1970s when it was legal in the US and there were a bunch of commercial publications creating and distributing it (prior to the "Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act" in 1977 (which targeted the production) and "Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act" in 1988 (which targeted the distribution))? I find that doubtful. > Does the industry feel that it has any responsibility at all to do so? Why should it? Should every home builder and landlord install a camera in every bedroom to stream back to the government to be sure that no children are being molested? Why not? It's technologically possible today. The fact that garbage people do garbage things to vulnerable people doesn't mean that the entire world must be commandeered to stop it. E2E encryption has replaced a lot of in person meeting that also would have been secure against dragnet surveillance. We shouldn't lose our privacy just because it became technically possible to take it away, no different than the cameras in bedrooms mentioned above.