I don't see those kids getting hurt any further unless they happen to be the sort of people that go out of their way to seek out child abuse material. It's hard to imagine anyone ever accidentally running into images of themselves being abused. You can't possibly be re-victimized if you don't know.

I don't mean to sound heartless, obviously these are horrific acts which hurt people deeply. I simply don't think banning encryption or otherwise eroding our rights to go after distributors and consumers is really going to have much practical effect on how the victims end up feeling.

E: HN doesn't let me reply to selectodude below

>the mere knowledge that pictures of you being abused on the internet is extraordinarily difficult to deal with

I absolutely agree with this. I just know that nobody can ever go tell the victim that now those pictures are forever gone off the internet.