Comment by jillyboel

> Am I missing something, or does this make it very difficult to start up a public facing service from scratch?

It's by design. Politicians have fallen for big tech lobbyists once again.

Also who says that the hashes provided by your CSAM database of choice are actually flagging illegal data and not also data that whoever runs the database wants to track down? You have no idea. You are just complicit in the surveillance state, really.