> if they wanted to reduce child abuse, scanning everyone’s communications for CSAM would not be the most straightforward way to go about it.

* First, this is not what politicians do. What they want is to look like they are fighting it.

* Second, what is your more straightforward way to fight CSAM? Asking for a backdoor is pretty straightforward, I find. I would rather say that fighting CSAM is more difficult than that.