[_Algernon_]

In general, I find people's - especially politicians' - abuse of CSAM / child abusers to push through bad policy to be a bigger problem than actual CSAM / child abuse.

How much harmful policy has been pushed through with the excuse that it will stop CSAM? Often without having any particular effect on the issues it claims to be working against. People who spread or produce CSAM will use encryption and cryptocurrencies, leaving everyone else to be under permanent surveillance.

How do you stop them? By investigating and hitting down hard when you catch them irl, just like we always have. Not by racing to a dystopian surveillance state.