Imagine cars would record and forward to police everything said in them. We must hold Volkswagen responsible for the child abusers driving around rampantly, while they look the other way. We cannot allow the inside of a car to be a "law-free zone". Police is still unable to find out what was said in the van before the 2017 London Bridge attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_London_Bridge_attack

Right. And even if all those companies found everything that goes through their systems, they'd arguably accomplish nothing more than catching the punters. Mostly kids and old men.

Most people who create and distribute child sexual abuse imagery don't likely operate on the open Internet. They're in private forums on Tor onion services. Along with I2P and Freenet.

So this is mostly propaganda to build support for the Panopticon.

Well, apparently they use mainstream services quite a lot, even openly where search engines can index it. I think what goes unsaid here is that Facebook reported a lot of it to the authorities and they don't do much about it anyway.

I'm not arguing that people don't share and save that stuff on mainstream services. I'm arguing that 99% of them are just looking. And that most of the ones who are actually abusing are much harder to find.

So what the Panopticon will accomplish is saturating the system with punters, with no substantial impact on abuse.

That, and nuking privacy online. Which, I argue, is the real goal.

Yeah I completely agree that spying on us all is the real goal whenever politicians and high level law enforcement officials bring this topic up.

People have been sexually abusing children before we had electricity let alone the internet, so even if there was never another abuse image posted the actual abuse will continue.