chat control is a scam because if they get everyone to give the government a golden key, the golden key will be acquired by the exact people it is supposedly trying to fight and they will bypass the whole system and be able to use it as a weapon against their enemies

web of trust and paid relays are the main defenses we have, and it just doesn't follow that one nest of bullshit that happens to be running nodes in this protocol means anything for the rest of us

it's all the same, criminals gonna crime, and the cost of acting as a police is a cost that cannot be forced upon people who are doing their due dilligence, using the best filtering tech they can

those who want to actually wage war on these criminals they volunteer to the task and good for them, but it's a hard battle because the enemy is the lowest of the low, who will use every weapon against them... anti-sexual-abuse defenders of innocence have to be anonymous, they have to shield themselves from being physically located, and they have to be prepared to physically relocate in order to wage this war

so, yeah, that is such a large number of costs involved in being an effective combatant in this, and the fact that these criminals have infiltrated the government anyway suggests that the last people we should be allowing or trusting to stop child abuse is the government