There could be so many places where this is happening, and it's going undetected, until law enforcement happens to seize some unfortunate individual's computer

There could be so many places where this is happening, and it's going undetected, until law enforcement happens to seize some unfortunate individual's computer and child porn is found on it. Distributing or creating such material (with real children) is rightfully illegal. Possession with intent to distribute, as well. But absolutely not simple possession. These crazy laws need to go, it's a modern 21st Century form of morality policing[1]. Such morality policing is not much more that primally driven primitive behavior, akin to which our tribal ancestors carried out, and coming from a part of our brain that is thousands of years old. It does not belong in a modern technologically based society. And the internet, with its fundamental lack of privacy, has enabled such morality policing on a shocking scale. Such material can be easily generated locally with AI with no risk of detection by law enforcement, and planted into people's web browser caches or other temporary storage so easily. The government is basically giving any sophisticated hacker or state actor (e.g. Russia) a push-button way of destroying any political opponent with ease. If you live in a Western country and criticize a Russian political figure too much, well the FSB (the successor to the KGB) is going to put child porn on your computer. They've already been caught doing precisely that. [2] So it's especially important in this current geopolitical situation we're in. 1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565231193694 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135485652311936... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat#History