Reply #9: What an awful idea. Orwellian and too many ways for it to backfire. [View All]

[darkism]

First, what's to prevent someone from sending someone they didn't like a bunch of child porn anonymously via proxy, thus tripping the checks and getting that person investigated?

Second, two words: Hash collision. What if a perfectly innocuous file shares the same hash with a child porn file?

Everybody wants to stop child exploitation, but this is not the way to go about it. Unfortunately there will be no public outcry because anyone who is unnerved about this will be painted as a pedophile or pedophile sympathizer.