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The charity warns organised criminals are taking advantage of “systemic failures” in online security infrastructure.
Commercial websites host a wide range of child sexual abuse imagery which is available for users to buy. The imagery for sale can involve victims of all ages, and can include some of the most severe and extreme forms of sexual abuse.
Some of these sites have been deliberately disguised to appear as non-criminal sites or to look inactive in an attempt to operate on the open web while avoiding detection. Many of these sites accept payment via cryptocurrencies, card payments or money transfer services.
If these sites are known, why are they allowed to operate? AFAIK there is no country where it is legal.
In some cases they’re deliberately allowed to operate as a honey trap, allowing authorities to identify and arrest as many users as possible.
If you simply shut the site down, the users go elsewhere and you have to find them again.
OK, personally I don’t think such honey traps should be legal, you can never say for sure, that a person falling for it, would use an illegal site if the honey trap didn’t exist.
IMO it’s immoral, and luckily in my country they are in principle illegal, although the police here is trying to push the line on that.The honey trap could be the thing that “ignited” the interest for an individual!
It can also be the trigger for other people to make similar sites, as in if they can do it, we can do it too.
Honey traps break with the fundamentals of justice in many ways, and making them legal is a sign of a sick society IMO.
Is it really illegal if it’s intentionally never prosecuted?
Seems it’s not illegal if you are a billionaire.
But at least in Europe it has consequences for people if they are in the Epstein files.
But in USA it seems it’s just considered to be a group of friends with special interests! 🤢
Y’all know pedophiles run the world, right? Like, NO one is stopping them in any but the most limited ways.
Who would have thought, Trump steals another election and now pedos are making more money than ever
These strange coincidences just keep piling on, eh?
Meanwhile human trafficking services have received substantial budget cuts.
I wonder why.
the Republicans running it fify but I guess gang fits as well
IWF is a UK organisation
They mean the website operators.
