> CSAM producers and consumers should be found and punished via old-fashioned methods. How was this done in the past?
The "old-fashioned methods" that they used in the past included intercepting communications of people that were suspected of crimes, such as by getting a warrant allowing them to force the person's phone company to record and turn over the person's calls, or by getting a warrant to intercept and inspect the contents of the person's mail at the post office.
> To outlaw large sections of mathematics because of this is absurd
No one has or is proposing outlawing large sections of mathematics, or even small sections of mathematics. The laws are outlawing some applications that make use of mathematics.
Calling that outlawing mathematics is as absurd as saying that building codes that won't let me use asbestos insulation in new construction are banning sections of thermodynamics. Or saying that laws that restrict how high I can fly a drone are banning large sections of aerodynamics.
>The laws are outlawing some applications that make use of mathematics.
Stop equivocating. You're banning the mathematics. The mechanism is literally the mechanical implementation of the mathematics.
>Calling that outlawing mathematics is as absurd as saying that building codes that won't let me use asbestos insulation in new construction are banning sections of thermodynamics.
...Except that's not even an analogous comparison? The asbestos is forbidden not because it's too good an insulator/foiler of thermodynamics, but because of it's danger to the health of everyone.
Trying to ban applications that use encryption is exactly banning asbestos because it's too good an insulator, and you're interested in seeing whatever is wrapped in it burn.
The "old-fashioned methods" that they used in the past included intercepting communications of people that were suspected of crimes, such as by getting a warrant allowing them to force the person's phone company to record and turn over the person's calls, or by getting a warrant to intercept and inspect the contents of the person's mail at the post office.
> To outlaw large sections of mathematics because of this is absurd
No one has or is proposing outlawing large sections of mathematics, or even small sections of mathematics. The laws are outlawing some applications that make use of mathematics.
Calling that outlawing mathematics is as absurd as saying that building codes that won't let me use asbestos insulation in new construction are banning sections of thermodynamics. Or saying that laws that restrict how high I can fly a drone are banning large sections of aerodynamics.