Look into some of the people who have set up fake CP sites on the dark web or who have posed as young girls on public social media. It's incredibly easy to create a honey pot to ensnare sexual predators. There are many articles on such experiments and they are highly effective.

They don't need back doors or hacker hanky panky to catch sex pests, just creative but conventional police work.

This is an issue that gets dragged out to scare the public but the authorities really don't care much about it. Reports of sex abuse from real victims are often ignored and sexual predators get shorter sentences than people convicted of minor drug possession or other stupid crap.

Exactly, they need to actually do their jobs instead of trying to cheat by taking away everyone's privacy and other rights.

Maybe internet needs to learn how to paint politicians bringing up child porn regulation as molesters

Given some of the news that's come to light in recent years, there's a non-zero chance that they are

One of them has to give. You can't effectively police what's perfectly anonymous.

My teacher said if you wqnt to reduce violence, the most effective you could do was to start installing surveillance cameras in every bedroom.

I suggest we start there, and we start with politicians homes ;-)

Conversation doesn't work when people immediately strawman the other side.