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Read any marketing material by the NCMEC, and you'd be forgiven for thinking they spend all day wading through horrific images of children being violently abused. The 'charity' and its cousins, like Canada's Cybertip and the UK's Internet Watch Foundation, have a financial motivation to make you believe this. Their governments, likewise, benefit from a 'threat' that allows them to pass increasingly draconian laws but can never be verified under threat of imprisonment. It's a convenient state of affairs for the powers that be.

The kind editors of Yesmap Wiki have long been working to dispel many of the claims of such charities. So have I, both here and on Mu. Evidence indicates that the vast majority of images are now generated by AI or produced by minors themselves, rather than an adult recording themself engaging in criminalized conduct with a child. And according to an anonymous source who recently shared a guest blog on this very site, even criminalized images depicting AMSC are typically nothing like how the charities describe them.

You may think the NCMEC and their friends would dislike our dissenting commentary... and it seems you might be right.