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Karen from Tor here. How do we feel about it? We are angry. We talk to people who work with NGOs and government agencies to combat child abuse, human trafficking, stalking, and domestic violence. If you work for Tor, you learn more than you ever wanted to know about the horrible things that happen to vulnerable people. We also get to do work on behalf of vulnerable people. Think about what happens to people in prison after they are arrested for protesting against the government. Some of that happens because of Internet surveillance. Survivors connect to each other anonymously online, because they cannot do so in person.

I am angry at the people who abuse children. I am angry at people in institutions who look the other way in order to preserve reputations and money at the cost of the well-being of vulnerable people. I am angry at government officials and politicians who divert resources away from social services and the investigators who are working on the ground to prevent child abuse in the first place. I am angry at politicians who do not bother to learn how the Internet works; to better know how much of the problem is technology and how much is lack of counselors, training for police, work against corruption, and other non-technical means. Instead, they act as if placing restrictions on the entire population is a magic bullet against child abuse images.

Even if the entire Internet went away, child abuse images would still be traded. Some things can not be stopped. One can only ensure that these bad things do not give people in power excuses to take out the good.

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