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Regardless of if banning child porn is effective at stopping crimes against children (it doesn’t, porn in general correlates to a societal-wide decline in sex and sex crimes) that doesn’t mean all the CSAM victims out there want pictures of them naked as a child to be part of some uncompensated scheme to replace their jobs.

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Absolutely, and we should do what's reasonably possible to reduce the number of images out there in circulation. But we can't do what is the equivalent of shutting down the whole Internet, in order to stop it.

Society and AI development have to keep going, otherwise progress will be disrupted. It's progress that has gotten us out of the barbaric Medieval period and the Dark Ages.

Good point. If someone publishes a photo then they violate the child’s right to privacy and I agree that they should be punished.

Doesn’t this mean that the crime is in the act of publishing? If they have the photo but don’t publish it then what have they done wrong? What about if the photo is a very realistic rendering of a child that doesn’t exist? (Or just a drawing, for which people have indeed been prosecuted in some parts of the world.)

(The flip side is already covered in law: if the face is real but the scene is fake then it is still an invasion of privacy.)

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