More good news!
A 2 year investigation into child pornography trading on the darkweb has just concluded with massive amounts of arrests across Europe, USA, Turkey, Peru, Chile, Ukraine, Israel and Malaysia .
The bust centered around a specific darkweb site called "PlayPen", that has been running since August 2014 and had at least 150,000 users around the world.
The sites founder Steven W. Chase (Florida, 58) was sentenced to 30 years prison as well as two administrators facing 20 years each.
Europe accounts for the major share of arrests and convictions with 368 suspects being charged. A total of 870 arrests were made in connection with the case, according to Europol.
Over 300 children who had suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Playpen members have been identified or rescued.
Like we've seen in similar cases, once investigators had tracked down the server they compromised it and used it to serve malware to its clients in order to track them.
This part of the operation was codenamed Operation Pacifier.
The FBI’s command of the Playpen site enabled the agency to infect over 8,000 users’ computers with malware and hack them. Notably, the site was said to be more efficient and even experienced a boost in audience numbers with the FBI in charge of its content.
Whilst I really have zero sympathy for child pornographers, the EFF does make some good points about the way this was handled:
“The warrant here did not identify any particular person to search or seize. Nor did it identify any specific user of the targeted website,” Electronic Frontier Foundation said, calling into question the legality of the FBI’s actions.
900 down, millions to go.
Source : ‘Playpen’ Creator Sentenced to 30 Years - Fbi.gov May 5th
900 pedos taken out, great!
However, the fact that the FBI ran this site, actually improving it and increasing its traffic is troubling.
Motherboard/Vice
https://steemit.com/pizzagate/@v4vapid/fbi-protects-tor-exploit-rather-than-pursue-reputed-child-pornographer
I'm not saying any of these people are innocent but this kind of 'enabling' by the FBI reminds me of how they aid/facilitate home grown terrorists. Radicalizing loners, providing the bomb making materials and helping to devise the terror plots.
Da fuq...
Like when the FBI was directly responsible for providing the bomb in the first WTC bombing in 1993, among many, many other incidents. If the FBI were dismantled, the crime rate would probably just collapse.
LOL @lifeworship
It's a start.
I hope that the arrests continue and grow bigger.
It should be a priority to help these poor kids.
want to vomit.
Good to see some of these people starting to get taken down.
i hope they are all caught
Get wreck'd
"Whilst I really have zero sympathy for child pornographers, the EFF does make some good points about the way this was handled"
This is how our last bit of freedom goes away. That is why it's being done to pedophiles, because 'everyone' agrees that it doesn't matter if ALL the rules are broken to stop the pedophiles. After that, none of us have any rights anymore. It's over.
Have they published the names and pictures of the arrested? I think only the sacrificial lambs will be arrested to slake the thirst for justice in the public. The real power will continue doing whatever they want, to whomever they want.
AFAIK only the founder has been named. This feels slightly more "real" then some of the previous sacrificial busts, but I get what you mean..
Feds took over, improved, and probably cloned all the material passing through for their own libraries before making any arrests. This is not the bust we're looking for :o/
Chris Hansen needs to get back on the job.
+100
And yet the main stream media remains strangely silent.
So who runs those organizations anyway? Anyone?
I get this queasy feeling when I see the word pedophile. And, sadly, a bit is due to bar crawl yesterday :/
Sick. Take it all down.
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@shayne
Great update! Will repost @phibetaiota
keep up the great work!
~The Management.
This is very great news, although it's only 900, this should send a message to all those pedos.
It's a great start! Let's put them behind bars.
Thanks for the info. Just like others commenting here, the whole subject gives me the creeps. I find it hard to read about. But maybe that revulsion contributes in some way to the cover up? So I force myself to read about it, sickening though it is.
I hope they all get what they deserve. The expiration of their existence would truly make the world a better place.
Shocking information! The world is heading into the abyss without God!
Great news!! Thanks for the information!!