I don't think anyone would disagree with you that child abuse exists - and if they did, that's an empirical question, and it resolves to you being correct.
The moral part is whether and how much society / the state / the tech industry should invest in combating it, and how the advantages and disadvantages of mandating government access to E2E encrypted communications or people's cloud storage weigh up.
For what it's worth, my own position is that the state should do more about it, and should in principle have more resources allocated to do so. I would support higher taxes in exchange for more police (and better trained police), who could do more about many kinds of crime including child abuse. I wouldn't mind more resources being allocated to policing specifically for fighting child abuse, too. But I could think of a lot of other places besides legislating access to people's messenger apps where such resources could be invested.
I'm still undecided on whether legally mandated backdoors in E2E encrypted storage and communications would be _effective_ in fighting child abuse, which is a question I would need more technical knowledge on before I could take an informed position (I know a fair bit about cryptography but less about how organised crime operates). If it turns out that this would be an ineffective measure (maybe criminals fall back on other means of communication such as TOR relays) then it would be hard to justify such a measure morally, especially as it could have a lot of disadvantages in other areas.
The moral part is whether and how much society / the state / the tech industry should invest in combating it, and how the advantages and disadvantages of mandating government access to E2E encrypted communications or people's cloud storage weigh up.
For what it's worth, my own position is that the state should do more about it, and should in principle have more resources allocated to do so. I would support higher taxes in exchange for more police (and better trained police), who could do more about many kinds of crime including child abuse. I wouldn't mind more resources being allocated to policing specifically for fighting child abuse, too. But I could think of a lot of other places besides legislating access to people's messenger apps where such resources could be invested.
I'm still undecided on whether legally mandated backdoors in E2E encrypted storage and communications would be _effective_ in fighting child abuse, which is a question I would need more technical knowledge on before I could take an informed position (I know a fair bit about cryptography but less about how organised crime operates). If it turns out that this would be an ineffective measure (maybe criminals fall back on other means of communication such as TOR relays) then it would be hard to justify such a measure morally, especially as it could have a lot of disadvantages in other areas.