> nice try, but nobody is distributing or hosting CSAM in the current conversation

multiple agencies (Ofcom, irish police IWF, and what ever the french regulator is) have detected CSAM.

You may disagree with that statement, but bear in mind the definition of CSAM in the UK is "depiction of a child" which means that if its of a child or entirely generated is not relevant. This was to stop people claiming that massive cache of child porn they had was photoshoped.

in the USA CSAM is equally vaguely defined, but the case law is different.

> EU is perhaps incompatible with any workable notion of free speech

I mean the ECHR definition is fairly robust. But given that first amendment protection has effectively ended in the USA (the president is currently threatening to take a comedian to court for making jokes, you know, like the twitter bomb threat person in the UK) its a bit rich really. The USA is not the bastion of free speech it once was.

> either sell to America or flee this place before I get big enough to show up in the euro-borg's radar

Mate, as someone whos sold a startup to the USA, its not about regulations its about cold hard fucking cash. All major companies comply with EU regs, and its not hard. they just bitch about them so that the USA doesn't put in basic data protection laws, so they can continue to be monopolies.