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For me it feel just like smoke screen rather than genuine intention to help child abuse. Is child abuse from predators such a big problem to variant all populat

• madeofpalk 2y ago
  > It would be better instead to empower and educate parents with tools to protect their children Do we think that CSAM comes from poor parenting? That the parent's didn't do enough?
  • simiones 2y ago
    Not all of it, for sure, but certainly some amount of it. Most perpetrators of child sexual abuse are close to the child, either family members or authority figures (priests, teachers, etc). I expect at least some amount of CSAM originates from these places as well, that the child's parents absolutely had the power (and responsibility) to stop. Of course, a lot of it comes from major organized crime networks that parents are powerless against. But that then falls under the incidence of more regular police investigations to stop and curtail. You don't need to monitor everyone's chat history to be able to find and dismantle a crime ring.
• petre 2y ago
  Of course it's just another pretext to enable snooping on the public, now that e2e encryption is prevalent. 1947: commies 2001: terrorists 2021: pedos
• raxxorraxor 2y ago
  No, and they already said it will be used against copyright infringement as well. The child abuse angle was a lie. Officials supportive here are either naive, extensively lobbied or have an authoritarian streak. Nothing really redeeming about their plans.