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Alternatively, someone could realize that existing CSAM that's so widespread it's in the database basically equals water under the bridge, whereas creating CSAM that isn't in the DB requires to harm more children.

Poverty and power imbalance is what harms children the most, by far. But we can't tackle that without stepping on the toes of greed, so we do circus instead.

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You say water under the bridge, others will say where there's smoke there's fire.

But this isn't smoke, this is a photo of smoke. And as I said, the raging fires all of us can see in plain view go mostly unchecked. Where there is a photo of smoke, there may be fire, but where there is obviously a huge blazing fire, there surely is fire.

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