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Opinion: A bill taking aim at online child pornography comes with dangerous tradeoffs

Widespread searching for CSAM on the mainstream Internet might drive bad actors deeper into the Dark Web. By effectively compelling companies to comb their systems for CSAM, skeptics say, the bill could unintentionally make them into government actors in the eyes of the law, allowing defendants to argue under the Fourth Amendment that they were the subjects of unconstitutional searches.