• taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    Does it feel odd to anyone else that a platform for something this universally condemned in any jurisdiction can operate for 4 years, with a catchy name clearly thought up by a marketing person, its own payment system and nearly six figure number of videos? I mean even if we assume that some of those 4 years were intentional to allow law enforcement to catch as many perpetrators as possible this feels too similar to fully legal operations in scope.

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      It would feel odd, but you have to remember we live in a world where Epstein was allowed to get away with what he did until the little people found out.

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        Epstein was very smart, and figured out early on there were many, many rich pedophiles.

        So, he got buddy buddy with them, supplied young girls to them.

        BUT, he filmed the encounters in secret, and blackmailed the shit out of these people.

        He was smart enough to become obscenely rich on Wall Street legitimately, but he liked to bang little girls, found others who did too, and then extorted them.

        There’s an anecdote about how when Epstein was holding court with other Aristos, they would bring up any random subject, to get his opinion.

        What would he say? “What does that have to do with pussy?”

        Many, many people have verified that. But because we was filthy rich, everyone just laughed, and blew it off.

        Epstein was murdered. I’m not a conspiracy nut. It’s just blatantly obvious. The 2 guards on duty admitted to fucking off (bribed,) and were aquitted.

        https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/case-dropped-jail-guards-duty-night-epstein-died-rcna10557

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          trump was his most frequent guest, and he trump had his goon do everything in his power to get rid of the evidence when he was still alive. alot of politicians of different countries are part of it, as are hollywood execs, weinstein was probably the most infamous one.

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            This kind of thing is rampant. And it’s not just little girls.

            Heard from Bryan Singer, lately? Corey Feldman’s story about he, and Corey Haim confirm it.

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      It definitely seems weird how easy it is to stumble upon CP online, and how open people are about sharing it, with no effort made, in many instances, to hide what they’re doing. I’ve often wondered how much of the stuff is spread by pedo rings and how much is shared by cops trying to see how many people they can catch with it.

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        it can hide in plain sight, and then when you dig into someones profile, it can lead to someone or a group discussing CSAM and beastility, not just CP. like a site similar to r/pics, or porn site. yea sometimes you stumble into a site like that, but it seems to occur when people search for porn outside of the Pornhub and affiliates sites. remember PH sanatized thier site because of this. last decade there was article about an obscure site that was taken down, it had reddit like porn subs,etc. then people were complaining about the csam, and nothing was done about it. it was eventually taken down for legal reasons, thats not related to csam.

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        If you have stumbled on CP online in the last 10 years, you’re either really unlucky or trawling some dark waters. This ain’t 2006. The internet has largely been cleaned up.

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          I don’t know about that.

          I spot most of it while looking for out-of-print books about growing orchids on the typical file-sharing networks. The term “blue orchid” seems to be frequently used in file names of things that are in no way related to gardening. The eMule network is especially bad.

          When I was looking into messaging clients a couple years ago, to figure out what I wanted to use, I checked out a public user directory for the Tox messaging network and it was maybe 90% people openly trying to find, or offering, custom made CP. On the open internet, not an onion page or anything.

          Then maybe last year, I joined openSUSE’s official Matrix channels, and some random person (who, to be clear, did not seem connected to the distro) invited me to join a room called openSUSE Child Porn, with a room logo that appeared to be an actual photo of a small girl being violated by a grown man.

          I hope to god these are all cops, because I have no idea how there can be so many pedos just openly doing their thing without being caught.

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            typical file-sharing networks

            Tox messaging network

            Matrix channels

            I would consider all of these to be trawling dark waters.

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          most definitely not clean lmao, your just not actively searching for it, or stumbling onto it.

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          not stumbled upon it but I’ve met a couple people offering it on mostly normal discord servers

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          Search “AI woman porn miniskirt,” and tell me you don’t see questionable results in the first 2 pages, of women who at least appear possibly younger than 18. Because AI is so heavily corrupted with this content en masse, this has leaked over to Google searches in most porn categories being corrupted with AI seeds that can be anything.

          Fuck, the head guy of Reddit, u/spez, was the main mod of r/jailbait before he changed the design of reddit so he could hide mod names. Also, look into the u/MaxwellHill / Ghilisaine Maxwell conspiracy on Reddit.

          There are very weird, very large movements regarding illegal content (whether you intentionally search it or not) and blackmail and that’s all I will point out for now

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            Search “AI woman porn miniskirt,”

            Did it with safesearch off and got a bunch of women clearly in their late teens or 20s. Plus, I don’t want to derail my main point but I think we should acknowledge the difference between a picture of a real child actively being harmed vs a 100% fake image. I didn’t find any AI CP, but even if I did, it’s in an entire different universe of morally bad.

            r/jailbait

            That was, what, fifteen years ago? It’s why I said “in the last decade”.

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      with a catchy name clearly thought up by a marketing person

      A marketing person? They took “Netflix” and changed the first three letters lol

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        Exactly! There are plethora of *flix sites out there including adult ones. It does not take much of marketing skill to name site like this.

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      With the amount of sites that are easily accessed on the dark net though the hidden wiki and other sites. This might of been a honeypot from the start.

      On the contrary, why would they announce that they seized the site? To cause more panic, and to exaggerate the actual situation?

      In addition, that last point should be considered because even if they used these type of operations, honeypotting would still be considered illegal. So Ultimately what is stopping the supreme power to abuse that power on other people?

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      Illegal business can operate online for a long time if they have good OpSec. Anonymous payment systems are much easier these days because of cryptocurrencies.

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      It’s a side effect of privacy and security. The one side effect they’re trying to use to undermine all of the privacy and security.

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        This has nothing to do with privacy! Criminals have their techniques and methods to protect themselves and their “businesses” from discovery, both in the real world and in the online world. Even in a complete absence of privacy they would find a way to hide their stuff from the police - at least for a while.

        In the real world, criminals (e.g. drug dealers) also use cars, so you could argue, that druck trafficking is a side effect of people having cars…

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          Well, it does have to do with privacy and security, it just doesn’t matter if it’s legal or not for them. These people (in the US) always make a point that criminals will buy guns whether it’s legal or not, but then they’ll argue they need to destroy privacy because criminals are using it. It doesn’t make sense, but it doesn’t need to because honesty or consistency aren’t important.

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          This platform used Tor. And because we want to protect privacy, they can make use of it.

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            This particular platform used tor. It doesn’t mean all platforms are using privacy centric anonymous networks. There are incidents with people using kik, Snapchat, Facebook and other clear net services to perform criminal actions such as drugs or cp.

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          Pick any country where child marriage is legal and where women are a object the man owns

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          Context is important I guess. So two things.

          Is something illegal if it’s not prosecuted?

          Is it CSA if the kid is 9 but that’s marrying age in that country?

          If you answer yes, then no, then we’ll not agree on this topic.

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            I am not talking about CSA, I am talking about video material of CSA. Most countries with marriage ages that low have much more wide-spread bans on videos including sex of any kind.

            As for prosecution, yes, it is still illegal if it is not prosecuted. There are many reasons not to prosecute something ranging all the way from resource and other means related concerns to intentionally turning a blind eye and only a small minority of them would lead that country to actively sabotage a major international investigation, especially after the trade-offs are considered (such as loss of international reputation by refusing to cooperate).