| Two thoughts. 1) Good, simple politics. Protecting kids from predators is about as cut and dry an issue as you will ever find. Harry Potter vs Voldemort might be a more complicated moral issue. 2) I suspect that a few very well connected activists in the Bay Area have made it their life's work to get CSAM tools on sites. Ashton Kutcher and his organization Thorn [0] are probably the best example of this. Thorn is an interesting example because it has been VERY good at making its case in the non-tech media e.g. [1], [2], [3] and in front of congress [4]. It should be said, Thorn makes technology that helps track down child exploitation and has had some great results, which deserve plaudits. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization) [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/04/15/7126530... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/opinion/sway-kara-swisher... [3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/... [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsgAq72bAoU |