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cucumber3732842yesterday at 12:37 PM1 replyview on HN

>Keeping children safe and prosecuting are too different concepts, only vaguely related.

See also: That time the FBI took over a CSAM site and kept it running so they could nab a bunch of users.


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Ajedi32yesterday at 2:15 PM

Not necessarily saying what they did was right, but I think there's a strong utilitarian argument to be made that what they did in that case was, in fact, the best way to keep children safe.

What's more dangerous? CSAM on the internet? Or actual child predators running loose?

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