Porn Site Gave Federal Agents Free Rein 319
Frosty Piss writes "The operators of a notorious porn site Free6.com granted federal agents administrative access to the site, giving investigators the ability to monitor traffic and public and private chats in an effort to identify users trading 'a significant amount of child pornography.' Though some bloggers have speculated about whether law enforcement officials have secretly been given administrative access to sites where users have been known to post child pornography (like 4chan), the Free6.com arrangement is apparently the first such compact to be disclosed by investigators."
4chan (Score:2, Informative)
You're confusing 4chan with /b/ again. Please don't.
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While Free6.com included a notice warning that the posting of “child pornography or other illegal material” would be reported to “local authorities,” Burdick had site administrators add a line noting that, “Free6.com may disclose these communications to the authorities at its discretion.”
Site says to stop posting inappropriate, illegal material. Site warns that it will report such content to authorities. Site acts on threat.
Snuff Films don't exist (Score:4, Informative)
Also "I believe that the laws prohibiting possession of child pornography have been shown to reduce the production of same." - citation needed. Don't get me wrong, I report all that shit to https://secure.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/CybertipServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US [missingkids.com] when I see it, but what you suggest is, AFAIK, unproven - as well as the equivalent to arresting citizens for reading classified material on wikileaks.
Re:I guess they wanted free porn. (Score:5, Informative)
The reason that a rapist rapes women is to satisfy their desire for pornography? I think your logic is flawed.
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Re:I guess they wanted free porn. (Score:5, Informative)
When reporting pedophiles using a hosting service I worked for we had regular contact with the police and heard horror stories of converted farms and other properties turned into child porn factories.
At the time it was very hard for the police to get action taken against organizations in Eastern Europe and Russia, and it was a big deal when my friend got a call from Interpol to say that one of the tips was used to nail a large operation.
Granted, this was a decade ago, but there were people then who would pay to get their fix from a single source and I'm sure there are now. Just like any person who prefers a "private" torrent site to limit their IP exposure.
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Re:I guess they wanted free porn. (Score:2, Informative)
I hate to have to be the one to tell you this, but there is still a slavery industry trading in all nations and all races. Every so often some 11 year old white girl escapes from a basement in Florida or something telling a tale of having been kidnapped and trafficked through Mexico.
Where the fuck did you think all those missing children go? They don't all become movie stars.