[flumpcakes]

Who is they?

These pithy remarks don't really extend the debate or have any nuance - they just sound conspiratorial.

There are plenty of reasons to "scan" communications.

There are plenty of reasons to have limits on communication "scanning".

What part of the spectrum do you fall on?

[julienreszka]

no there is no reason to scan communications.

[flumpcakes]

The most obvious answer: to stop CSAM being shared on large platforms. Cloudflare has a tool that does it for some of their services.

[Double_a_92]

Just because it's criminal, it doesn't mean that every private entity has to help to prevent it at costs of your privacy.

If there are people that host parties in their homes to share CSAM, does that mean that it should be mandatory to install surveillance cameras in your house?

Also as if people that are seriously sharing CSAM, wouldn't encrypt the data before sharing it.