Going to edit our Post based on this.

In 2015, the FBI seized the servers for a CSAM website called “Playpen”, and then continued to operate the website for a couple of weeks after in order to catch people trading CSAM. It was said to be the largest investigation into the material, however by keeping the site active, along with it’s illegal content, and allowing hundreds of people to access, download, and share thousands of files of the material over the weeks it operated Playpen, it was also one of the largest distributions of the material.

All states investigate criminal activity.

That does not automatically make them all “surveillance states,” does it?

Are we saying that law enforcement agencies have the ability to just go ahead and delete the CSAM that’s out there?

How do we (FAC members) get them to start doing that?

Re. “it will be used to track your shopping habits”— we’ve already reached that point, no?

More to the point, are there people who are out there “shopping” for CSAM? Should they be identified?

The feds possess and use CSAM? How?

And how do we (FAC members) stop them from doing so?

and

“Today, child predators have virtually unlimited access to child sexual abuse material due to the easy, anonymous, and on-demand availability of these illicit graphic images and videos of child victims. The vast majority — a staggering 85 percent — have become hands-on abusers.” Really ??? – 85% of CSAM viewers become hands-on abusers? Where do they get these statistics – perhaps the same place the US Supreme Court got the statistic of the “frightening and high” recidivism rate of “sex offenders???

From the info on the site it seems like they are in the business of supplying law enforcement with tools to “catch” people downloading CSAM. There is no mention of law enforcement
hosting websites to disseminate CSAM or reverse sting operations that catch people who would never have looked for kids – until they were literally dropped in their face on adults only websites.

Just my 2 cents worth