It will fail to protect children because it misdirects attention and focus away from the real problem […the] actual failures to investigate, charge, prosecute and convict those involved in creating, selling, and sharing child sex abuse material where the supposed big, bad guys in the room – the tech companies – have actually alerted the authorities and given them the information they need to arrest abusers and child pornographers.
This is true; when I was that Facebook I heard stories of hundreds of thousands (if not more) of reports being sent to the relevant authorities, who just dropped them on the floor because they had either no capacity or no interest.
The tech companies do their best to report this stuff and increase the reportage, but telling that story does not serve the interests of the state or of the child protection activists who want clicks and money.
The author has solid credentials in the space too:
Maureen Flatley is the special adviser to Stop Child Predators, a US-based child protection organisation. In 2006, she was a principal architect of Masha’s Law, a statute that tripled the civil penalties for downloading child sexual abuse material.
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