[ayewo]

You write that:

> It’s quite telling that my story described graphic sexual assault of children and you immediately forgot about the victims and made it about the perpetrators. Probably because if you had instead asked:

“So, just because children are being raped, we should give away our freedom and privacy?”

I think the frame being used to discuss the issue is the problem.

CSAM is the product of abuse/exploitation of children and that in turn is a symptom of a more serious problem: the growing prevalence of people with depraved minds who only get a slap on the wrist when they are caught, instead of a being punished with a strong deterrent.

Once the punishment for child abuse or exploitation is commensurate with the crime, demand for CSAM will plummet.

Blanket scanning of people's devices is a technological solution to a problem that is inherently social—it is trying to treat the symptom instead of the actual ailment.