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  • Well it’s understandable that you think the predators are random men in white vans texting your kids, grooming, and abducting them, but in actuality, a ton of the major produces of CSAM are parents or family members.

    This doesn’t account for a smaller, but significant percentage of self-producers that post online because they’re following online sexual trends, innocently self-expressing, or self-exploiting.

    Having the goverment ban encryption will only undermine the privacy and security of law abiding citizens, and jeopardize national security. Parents don’t have to send messages to their kids really.

    The police won’t protect your child from your spouse.

    Banning encryption won’t do anything to curb this concern of yours, its like banning car locks because people could hide heroin in cars.

    I can empathize with your stance, but I have to tell you, that the “protect children” argument has been used to justify genocide, racial segregation, and so many other violations of civil rights within the last 100 years.


  • Well yes, because it’s not up to the government to take care of or protect your kids. And it’s your job to make sure they can protect themselves online. That’s just common sense.

    Additionally, the government is still effective at catching bad guys without backdoors to encryption, and this stuff doesn’t stop you from monitoring your kids devices.

    Yes in the US, Texas for example has used publicly available information to jail moms who travel for abortions.

    If the government were to trample on the freedom of privacy, it would affect the right to protest, it would affect freedom of assembly, it would affect freedom of opinion.

    China literally monitors most of their citizens communications this way.

    We do NOT want governments to invade privacy for the sake of security.

    Because, if the government can see what you do, then criminal actors can also see what you do too.