Good thing you aren’t German where this would now probably be illegal because we have politicians that are scared of thinking (possession of CSAM leaves no more way for a judge or a prosecutor to not prosecute or stopping, no matter the reason, even if the reason is to bring it to the police, a proud tradition in Germany, making the removal of CSAM harder, that Ursula von der Leyen started).
A German legal discussion about this is here [0] where a teacher who wanted to help is now being prosecuted (simpler summary here [1]), and apparently those idiots now finally plan to change the law after exactly those issues were explained to them when they started implementing this law.
Here in Austria the police is not very well trained on any computer related crimes either. When I initially found the first CSAM image my first instinct was to call the non-emergency line of the Police and the officer told me to "print out the images, and bring them to the next police station".
I had a thought that this would be a very very stupid thing to do so I contacted Interpol and they sad basically "omg whatever you do, don't print those out and don't carry them around"
> print out the images, and bring them to the next police station
That lets them solve an easier crime than finding the person who uploaded them or even who made them. Sounds like the police are pretty smart there. "Today we busted an individual who was intending to distribute child porn."
Ahh, austria police. A few years ago, my neighbour had an aggressive episode and ended up telling me "I bring di um". Naiv as I was, I called the police, which promptly answered "Do kemma nix tuan".
How does a restraining order help with a mentally unstable person? Do you seriously believe in time of crisis, they will remember "Oh yeah, but there is this outstanding restraining order, so I need to calm down"?
> "print out the images, and bring them to the next police station".
Wow, I think that would have been an issue here even before the change, only then the prosecutor could have decided to stop the proceedings before it even went to court.
A German legal discussion about this is here [0] where a teacher who wanted to help is now being prosecuted (simpler summary here [1]), and apparently those idiots now finally plan to change the law after exactly those issues were explained to them when they started implementing this law.
[0]: https://community.beck.de/2023/08/30/wenn-gesetzgeber-und-ju...
[1]: https://www.lawblog.de/archives/2023/08/28/staatsanwaltschaf...