Comment by nullc

> I don't know if companies have a govt imposed rule to report porn

In the US there isn't and generally cannot be a government requirement to search the customer's data. If there were, the provider would effectively acting as an agent of the government and the customer would enjoy 4th amendment protection of their privacy (absent a warrant or other, similarly targeted and justified reason).

Unfortunately, there is a bit of a wink-nod situation going on where the government quietly pressures companies to engage in these activities "voluntarily" -- in exchange for varrious forms of preferential treatment and refraining from enforcing other regulations -- and in court when a target attempts to present 4th amendment defenses everyone pretends (and testifies) that the provider was searching the customers private files of their own volition and not on the government's behalf.

In this game neither the provider nor the governments hands are clean because they are both conspiring to undermine the constitutional rights of the public.