It would be better instead to empower and educate parents with tools to protect their children rather than outsourcing to government or public companies.
Do we think that CSAM comes from poor parenting? That the parent's didn't do enough?
Of course, a lot of it comes from major organized crime networks that parents are powerless against. But that then falls under the incidence of more regular police investigations to stop and curtail. You don't need to monitor everyone's chat history to be able to find and dismantle a crime ring.
1947: commies
2001: terrorists
2021: pedosOfficials supportive here are either naive, extensively lobbied or have an authoritarian streak. Nothing really redeeming about their plans.
In other words, the problem is these peoples' insatiable power addiction.