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Have you heard of the chilling effect?

Yeah, which is irrelevant to the discussion. This thread is about photos of law enforcement and politicians used to convict people on CP charges.

Let's stick to the topic of discovery and how courts work.

Let’s conveniently ignore all the facts that speak against the planned dystopia, and focus on the positives of having all facets of your life constrained and controlled by authorities.

I'm happy to have that discussion, I think it's critical and we need to update laws to protect privacy.

You still don't get to be technically incorrect, though. You still need to know how courts work, if you want to participate in that discussion.

You have a lot of trust in your courts. Let’s hope it is not misplaced.

Not at all! Courts are a joke.

You still need to know the process, though. Images of police officers are not being used to convict CP charges.

That was not the claim. It seems you are deliberately/conveniently remaining naive at this point.

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