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- sfpfc, on 11/02/2007, -10/+51"He spoke of a video of a toddler on a changing table who is penetrated by an unknown adult male, of pictures of "a young girl, about six or seven, nude and tied to a chair, who is being sexually assaulted by a dog."
wtf - geekchic, on 11/04/2007, -2/+40I was once told a story at a conference on this subject about how a couple of police departments decided to be more pro-active in this regard.
One team set up a "honey pot" website and populated the chat rooms with fake kiddie profiles, belonging to their officers.
Another police team decided to study chatrooms and spent a lot of time chatting on a website full of suspect profiles which they thought might be adults pretending to be kids.
I am sure you can guess what was going on. - empeethree, on 11/02/2007, -6/+43this is a war worth waging.
- noahhoward, on 11/02/2007, -2/+38Ha, let me guess, they caught each other.
- Anub1s, on 11/02/2007, -6/+41Very poor taste, very poor indeed.
- plizard, on 11/02/2007, -5/+40shouldn't they go after the guy doing the crime instead of collecting the porn? don't get me wrong - they both should be but at the same time you rarely hear how the 35 year old doing the 14 year old is thrown in jail. it's usually the 40 year old collecting it in his mom's basement.
- Icanndiggit, on 11/02/2007, -7/+40Hi, I'm Chris Hansen. Please, take a seat over there.
- str3ama, on 11/02/2007, -3/+25demand creates supply.. it's not enough to just go after the kiddie porn suppliers, because someone else will take their place to fill the demand and profit.
I assume you're joking about going after weed, because it's entirely different. If someone smokes weed, it only concerns them - no one is killed directly in the creation of weed (leave out all the garbage about gangs, no one needs to be assaulted or hurt for weed to be produced). With Child Porn - it's always non-consensual - its most likely not consensual since I assume that's the allure in child porn? ...
child porn is more globally considered a threat, a war on child porn would have garnered more support then the war on terror.. - catalysis, on 11/02/2007, -12/+33I don't know why you're getting dugg down. Everyone wants to believe the govt. is only entrapping people or going after consensual teens. People here just don't want to face the reality of the situation. It's so much easier to turn a blind eye and get on with the usual criticism.
- oldhick, on 11/02/2007, -5/+24Why must it always be political? Can't we at least all come together in condemning child porn?
- Anub1s, on 10/30/2007, -6/+24God Dammit, I'm voting for Ron Paul, but people like you are making me think twice about it.
- czeman, on 11/02/2007, -8/+26"Everyone wants to believe the govt. is only entrapping people or going after consensual teens."
Exactly. My observation on digg has been that many diggers are hippies that believe the government is out to get us (which is partially true), and that world world peace will break out if the whole world gets together and smokes a magic doobie.
I was a little confused by the diggs down myself. - g30ph, on 11/03/2007, -2/+20It's human nature to be attracted to young girls, but people are also desperate to separate themselves from nature, which is why we pretend to have a switch in our brains. That switch activates on your 18th birthday, and tells you all the girls you wanted to bang in high school are no longer sexually interesting to you, because if they still are, you are a pervert and should be castrated.
- Icanndiggit, on 11/03/2007, -4/+21Hi, I'm Chris Han... Aww ***** it never mind. I do see what you are saying there. And you do have some valid points. But, it's society. In the 1930s people were practically adults at that age. It was not uncommon for girls that age to be well on their way towards marriage. I remember in a thread a while back someone coined the term "the disneyfication of kids" That's exactly why we live in a society where an 18 year old can go to jail for having consensual sex with a 15 yo. We are living in different times.
- thscientist1, on 11/02/2007, -10/+26pedo bear on the prowl
- Firehed, on 10/30/2007, -1/+17Valid point, but you prove what many people are saying: some stuff is harmless (consenting 16-year-olds) and some stuff is really ***** up (that thing with the toddler or six-year-old). It's two completely different categories of people/problems, and the government treats them equally.
Basically, if you have to ask your (potential) partner, "is this legal?" before going at your activities, it probably should be. There's no harm done if both parties know what they're getting into with each other. Yet if you get caught doing something that's not approved, you'll get the same sentence as the nutcase who rapes babies.
THAT's the reality of the situation. - kingkilr, on 11/02/2007, -0/+15Seriously, I don't honest know where I would find a chatroom, I use IRC to discuss programing stuff, that is about as "chatroom" as I get.
- postalblowfish7, on 11/02/2007, -5/+19who the ***** uses a chat room?
- Mongolai, on 11/02/2007, -5/+19Are you really that clueless? The child has been abused, and the picture is proof. Whether the image is downloaded 1 time, or 10,000 makes no difference. Each time it's downloaded, it contributes to the initial abuse of the child. Saying that it directly hurts no one by virtue of existing already is a fallacy that pedo apologists use to justify their disease. Downloading child pornography intentionally is by definition an act of pedophilia, and moral or ethical issues aside, it's against the law with good reason - it creates more incentive for sick freaks to abuse more children more often.
- 0260, on 11/03/2007, -1/+15by definition a rapist is also an 18 year old with a 17 year old girlfriend. shoot him too?
- YuriSakazaki, on 11/02/2007, -3/+17Pedobear cannot be stopped.
- VaporBro, on 11/04/2007, -4/+17Blocked and reported.
- hungryforair, on 11/02/2007, -10/+23Raid 12chan and 420chan.
problem solved - dinostabOMG, on 10/30/2007, -1/+13spam, don't bother clicking.
- Thundercat1971, on 11/03/2007, -0/+12So, a 40 year old dating a 26 year old is a predator?
- treas, on 11/03/2007, -5/+1626,999 of those computers also had www.4chan.org in their browser history
- DigitalBrian, on 11/03/2007, -1/+12Oh yeah and what about when the rape victim lies which is quite often, how many kids have accused their parents of abuse just because they didnt get it their way at home *lol* so we should just shoot those parents?
- toastgodsupreme, on 11/03/2007, -6/+17This story seems to call anyone who's even seen an underage child naked a child molestor. *****, I better hide all my baby books. I've got pics of me around 3 years old naked in a tub.
The guy who left a comment directly on the article made a good point:
"okay...i'll probably get flagged myself but i am just stating a true observation. i am glad that there is a concerted effort to eradicate the threat posed by child molestors. however i am not so sure all fit the classification of 'child-molestor'. many seem to be attracted to young teens which are already sexually active. that doesn't make it right but it is true nevertheless. i do worry about entrapment violations especially if pictures are sent via the Net by law enforcement during the sting. finally not so long ago it was the standard practice to marry off daughters(of a very young age) to young men. in fact the practice still happens in much of the world. child molestors should rot in prison, murderers should be executed but what is the validity of calling a sexually active teenager a child? when i'm approached by them over the Net i act like their father and warn them of the dangers of what they are doing. but today...they see their public info as part of their lifestyle and think we that we that reserve a right to privacy are fuddy-duddys and just being silly. as always there are no easy answers." - 0260, on 11/03/2007, -5/+16war on child porn is like war on pervs jacking it
- RetlawST, on 11/03/2007, -2/+13It's kind of like a trail, however. Many child pornography cases aren't publicized, and the ones that are usually represent the bigger busts: people who are the pornographers or somebody who has enough connections/pictures to KNOW a pornographer. When you hear of the big busts, the cops don't publicize their new leads, but it sends them in new directions as far as finding unknown predators.
- TheCosmicFool, on 10/30/2007, -1/+11It's a trap!
- spider418, on 10/30/2007, -0/+10"Say yes to Dr No" may not be the best slogan in a child porn thread....
- vault, on 10/30/2007, -3/+13Enough already.
- WarpFox, on 10/31/2007, -1/+10You should be.
- czeman, on 11/03/2007, -3/+12That's a controversial statement, but I partially agree with you. There's nothing wrong with finding a young girl (to a point) attractive, but acting on those impulses is wrong. You can't control how you feel, but you CAN control what you do.
- inactive, on 11/03/2007, -3/+12Sexually mature, yes... Psychologically mature, hell no. The problem here is that there's no expectation of voluntary consent. Spend some time around some 14-year-olds, and you'll know what I'm talking about. On second thought, no, you're creeping me out, stay the hell away from them.
- azprofessional, on 10/31/2007, -4/+13Sorry dude, Repub pevert list outweight dem perv list 2 to 1 at least.
- dartmanx, on 11/02/2007, -0/+9Sarcastic much?
- Pritchard, on 11/02/2007, -5/+14It's a trap.
- neodorian, on 11/02/2007, -0/+9Dude, I've been to 12 and 420 and the rest of the chans. While I've seen plenty of 16 year old girls flashing their ***** for their boyfriends or whatever, they don't cater to messed-up ***** like they talk about in this article. Biiiiiig difference. One is trashy to distribute and one is just sick.
- jdavid, on 11/03/2007, -2/+11These people should be caught, but at the same time, I do not think that means the government has the right to read everyones email, and or see everyones browser history. that kind of data should be separate. catching predators like these through honey pots seems like a just way to do it.
- Neiby, on 11/03/2007, -1/+9The bad guys do cover their tracks, but sometimes investigators can get enough clues from the pictures to find out where they came from. Sometimes the bad guys get sloppy and that's when they get nailed.
- plizard, on 11/03/2007, -2/+10hey! what where you thinking? why dont you have a seat right over there.
- DigitalBrian, on 11/03/2007, -4/+12well no matter the price we need to protect our kids, however 90% of all people have had thoughts like that at one point or another, that does not mean they are pedophiles, that means out society has changed and what used to be common practice such as marry at 13, is now not acceptable, we can make all the laws we want, it is not going to change the human mind, entrapment is potentially dangerous and in the end just ends up putting people who would never have violated kids in jail. they need to go after the providers of child pornography, the people who do the violating and sells the material afterwards.
- rugby4ward, on 11/02/2007, -3/+10I would love to personally stomp out every one of these peoples guts...
Line them up.
No f*cking mercy. - inactive, on 10/30/2007, -3/+10*****! Unless Ron Paul became a dictator once elected and starts ignoring the people who voted him into office, then the behavior of his supporters is what is going to determine his decisions.
- inactive, on 11/02/2007, -2/+9Its a nice growth industry for the police business, especially if they seed the market a little. can anyone say entrapment?
- IrishLadd, on 11/02/2007, -1/+7No, we can't. And that's what I hate about party politics. Everything is turned into a flame war about who's better. George Washington warned america not to get into party politics in his farewell address, no one listed and look where we are now.
- merreborn, on 10/30/2007, -0/+6The darkest corner of the interwebs.
- kingkilr, on 10/30/2007, -1/+7Ya think‽
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