Sweeping snoopinig
I support your point of view. An initiative towards enabling and permitting screening all correspondence between private persons for possession and transmission of sexual abuse material - it should have been stopped before anyone in the public was even aware of it.
Then who are behind this concerted initiative? We can look for suspects among forces with a known record of scheming and pressuring and abusing democracy. We have regimes, we have presidents and prime ministers, we have oligarchs within the information technology sector, and all their hidden money. Those with access to lobbyist logs in parliaments and governmental offices might make interesting finds (but will the lobbying be logged, and will any logs remain unredacted?).
Sexual abuse of minors is a serious crime.
Spying on people is a crime, too.
If these two crimes are to be weighed against each other - I would think breaking privacy for an entire population is the worst of them.
And if there is a snooper catch in the communication - how are the sensitivity and the specificity of the screening tools used? How will the percentage of false-positives be in cases with innocent family pictures exchanged within the family?
I would not have cared if I thought there was any reason to trust all politicians, all police and all the Big Names in information technology.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
