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So stop the circulating. This is like trying to stop people from using drugs by searching EVERYONE’S homes and reporting suspicious looking substances.

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"So stop the circulating." Good idea. Any ideas how we could do that? Perhaps one thing that would help is to implement a system that hashes circulating images to ensure they aren't known images of child sexual abuse. Just a thought.

A lot of unwanted kids out there that end up in broken homes or on the street. There are also a lot of kids born in abusive families.

Good ideas to stop the circulating would be to increase birth control education and access, increase foster care funding and access, implement common sense policies for adoption, and increase funding for Child Protective Services.

How does that stop existing CSAM from circulating?

It prevents CSAM from existing in the first place. Much like it would be ridiculous to search everyone's houses to stop drug use, it is far more effective to prevent the causes of drug dependency.

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