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Absinth writes:
From MSNBC, "It (the site) attempted to operate as a 'discussion-only' forum where people could share their sexual interest in young boys without committing any specific offenses, thus operating 'below the radar' of police attention. Having made contact on the site, some members would move to more private channels, such as email, to exchange and share illegal images and films of children being abused.
The statement said Europol analysts had cracked the security features of a key computer server at the center of the network which uncovered the identities of suspected child sex offenders. And, after his arrest, the forum's Dutch administrator helped police break encryption measures that shielded users' identities, allowing police to begin their covert investigations.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement( ICE ) has also issued a news release."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by melikamp on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:07AM
child porn distribution laws were written by sex-crazy prudes who did not believe in the freedom of expression by individuals, be it via talking, printing, or (God forbid) Internet posting. One immediate consequence of these laws is that it is not possible to have an honest and informed discussion about child abuse, or even to report the evidence of child abuse without a very real risk of a book being thrown at you. IMHO, it is far from coincidental that the same world-wide organization that spreads an idiotic and twisted moral teaching about sex is being implicated in institutionalized child abuse.
There, fixed it for you.
To drag the Internet into this discussion is to miss the point. If it is legal to slice people in half with chainsaws in videogames... if it is legal to share movies of people killing each other, then it should be legal to share pictures of anything. Not commercially. Not taking the pictures. Not abusing children (or anyone, for that matter). But there is absolutely no coherent argument that can be made for making it illegal to share a photo of a person, other than something related to privacy.