> So the user can’t have information about anything, but they can appeal the decision if their account is locked? And locking the account might cause people to do all kinds of stupid things like resetting their device to get the account back or because they panicked. Then the only evidence is some opaque system that claims the user had illegal content. That’s scary.

At that point you have uploaded the pictures to icloud. The evidence is in icloud. You cannot destroy your device to get rid of this.