Well yes, the next chapter title in any narrative that begins with "For the Children" is always called, "Because Terrorism!" I strongly agree with you, every customer of Apple just became a suspect of terrorism and potential thought-crimes, because a monolithic tech company is colluding with government to enable warrantless searches, which the government itself could never do because we used to have a system of checks and balances (within the US anyway).I don't want to get defensive about CSAM because I think those people deserve the death penalty. However, you're wrong about being fined. Apple will only get fined if the company knows of CP content and doesn't report it. How will Apple know of it if those users never utilize iCloud Photos? Therefore no fines.
By embedding the hash scan within iOS, it can be assumed that Apple thinks every user is a suspect of CSAM. The next thing that Apple might scan for is what you posted: terrorism and possibly drugs. If hashes can catch CP, then it can definitely catch terrorism. Every Apple user in America, will then be a suspect of terrorism.
But, Apple's walled garden is keeping the world safe from threats like Pegasus which couldn't possibly work on SpyPhone. Oh, no, wait... nevermind. Strange they haven't mentioned it in any security updates, I guess they're too busy r00ting their own OS to get around to patching exploits anymore.
Happy Apocalypse!
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