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By shutting down child pornography rings, police are preventing further abuse.

Maybe, maybe not. Probably in some or even many cases, but certainly not all.

But, it also provides an unquestionable excuse to not care about "accidental" overreach or collateral damage. Someone's hosting something they don't like on a shared server? Guess what happens when they "discover" kiddie porn hosted by someone else on that same server?