“…The Trichan incident reveals that, even in its darkest concerns, the Internet is neither lawless nor unregulated, but rather it is structured by the private sector in the absence of democratic oversight or adequate enforcement. Existing mechanisms for CSAM removal rely, to a significant degree, on voluntary cooperation between private companies since "despite widespread agreement about the abhorrence of child pornography for instance, democratic governments in much of the western world have been unwilling or unable to regulate ISPs" (Keen et al, 2020(Keen et al, , p. 1178). Such a system can be openly flouted by bad actors, while devolving critically important issues of public safety to private companies (Suzor, 2019).…”