CW:Child abuse. Vast pedophile network shut down in Europol’s largest CSAM operation
Vast pedophile network shut down in Europol’s largest CSAM operation
USAID gets cut
Largest pedophile network shuts down
Beat me to it.
Nearly 1,400 suspected consumers of CSAM have been identified among 1.8 million [!!!] global KidFlix users, and 79 have been arrested so far.
I wanna barf.
Trying not to come to the realization that there's a lot more pedophiles than i ever imagined is getting harder every day. It's just media bias is just recency bias l... Right?
Hollywood is full of pedos and half of french movies are about the forbidden love between a 15 year and her 64 year old father's best friend - the other half are "what if men had to wear a hijab"
I feel like this story sort of confirms my view that cops and pedos are, how to put this, "Tom and Jerry": 1.8 million KidFlix users to 79 arrests at present, means that a pedo could directly participate in the sexual exploitation of children, and end up literally having a 99.996% chance of getting off scot-free — even if all 1,400 suspects do get arrested eventually, then that's still a 99.92% chance that a given pedo who created a KidFlix account, won't face any punishment for their actions. God is more likely to take the matter into His own hands by way of a freak accident, than cops are to even knock on a pedo's door with a warrant.
In that sense, one could say that there's a commonality between stealing someone's childhood and stealing someone's wages, in that the bourgeois state has to pretend to be opposed to both these criminalities, and might accordingly dispatch its police to "make an example of" a handful of the crime's offenders — but in reality the crimes are As Good As Legal™, because they still ultimately serve the same system as the cops do. So it's all a cartoon! It's pure spectacle! You'd have to be a damned fool to think Tom's ever gonna catch and eat Jerry once and for all!
Having worked with kids for over a decade, it's such a terrifying thing to think about
It's less than a single percentage point of the world population, but it's still too many
Think of it this way: if they are 1% of the population that's 3.4 million in the US, 4.9 million in the EU. So easily several tens of millions globally assuming that and the internet is global and this site we can assume didn't have but a fraction of all pedophiles as users.
(As a depressing aside I would guess the number of people but especially adult men who are not interested in pre-pubescent children but would absolutely have sex with a 15 year old if given the opportunity is much, much higher than 1% of the population.)
The idea of protecting children in of itself is a recent idea (in capitalism, pre-capitalist societies being a bit different) brought about by labor rights movements. After all 125 years ago children were commonly found in work-houses and factories doing dangerous jobs for long brutal hours and in that situation well if you think that's okay or have accepted it you're not likely to raise a fuss about sexual exploitation involving them either. Even as short a time ago as immediately post WW2 tons of children worked very long hours on farms.
Its pretty common I fear. Most just don't get caught. Or get caught and it gets swept under the rug
It likely helped that most suspects were already known offenders, Europol noted
They mostly only caught people they already knew about. Sickening
Is it odd that I'm also extra disgusted at the fact that the name is so marketing-department? Like it sounds like something Netflix would name their shows for kids section and that just makes me even more nauseous somehow.
Awful how few of them are facing any punishment. Absolutely disgusting. I have read stories of open child exploitation occurring in Hungary and its allowance by authorities but it seems like this is a whole of Europe issue.
