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German police shuts down Darknet child-porn site with 87,000 members

Maximo

Member
I remember hearing something like this. I hope there's further research into rehabilitation of paedophiles. It would be ground breaking if rehab worked.

Would take some brave men/women to rehab those people, probably have to get therapy themselves.
 
Would take some brave men/women to rehab those people, probably have to get therapy themselves.

The people rehabilitating them aren't usually at risk. It's the kids they pose a threat to once they're out on the street again. Theres been heaps of cases where sex offenders have refused any councelling and treatment programs offered while in prison. Once let out they went straight back to raping kids.

Would you want these people supposedly rehabilitated around your kids because a psychiatrist deems them low/medium/high risk?
 

Switch Back 9

a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
I assume those who work there are child molesters themselves.

I mean who in the right mind would keep a straight face when operating those.

What?!
So you believe the investigators doing this work are child molesters?
 

Skinpop

Member
I assume those who work there are child molesters themselves.

I mean who in the right mind would keep a straight face when operating those.

many who work with these things(for example youtube content moderators who spend all day finding and blocking CP and other illegal content) end up with depression and psychological issues, I'd show more respect for their sacrifice if I were you.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/reyhan/tech-confessional-the-googler-who-looks-at-the-wo?utm_term=.tf5awK363#.ilQ9Ozlal
 
He got arrested recently on charges, that is all the context there is.

http://www.poconorecord.com/news/20170628/tobyhanna-man-charged-in-child-porn-case
Wasn't enough to have child porn on his laptop he needed it on the go on his phone. Kids as young as 4 years old.
He will be back on the street in no time. Hell he might not even serve jail time.

Wow, i completely missed the thread about this. I remember him for being a very vocal, opinionated mod and of course for the infamous incident where he abused his mod status to stealthily edit years old posts to "win" an argument or something. To get back into the limelight in this way is quite something to say the least, but i guess with communities this large, there are bound to be quite a few bad apples. It's just surprising when it's someone fairly prominent.
 

dinoroar

Banned
I don't know why that number is so surprising to me, but I guess I must be totally closeted to the realities of this kinda thing.
 
Then when they get caught abusing a child again folks will act shocked. Deal with it now for those caught and keep them locked up.

What's not shocking though is often the community and the victim and family are shocked they are being released in the first place.
Being labelled as medium/high risk re-offenders doesn't prevent them from being released because they served the sentenced time although some exceptions are made. They're then societys problem which means more pedos back on the street at the cost of childrens safety.
 

NEO0MJ

Member
Wow, i completely missed the thread about this. I remember him for being a very vocal, opinionated mod and of course for the infamous incident where he abused his mod status to stealthily edit years old posts to "win" an argument or something. To get back into the limelight in this way is quite something to say the least, but i guess with communities this large, there are bound to be quite a few bad apples. It's just surprising when it's someone fairly prominent.

I just found out about it recently as well. The news broke while I was asleep and all threads regarding it were closed/deleted after Evilore put out a statement regarding the matter.
 

Fritz

Member
You use a program called TOR, which allows you to access data otherwise unavailable (colloquially .onion sites). Once you are in the TOR internet, you basically have access to all normal internet + onion sites, which are hard to find because crawler search engines cannot find them. What you usually do is find a reference site (for example, use duckduckgo to find a text dump that contains addresses to onion sites) and try to find what you want, though 99% of darknet sites are password protected.

So basically the internet pre advanced search engines
 
Yeah, actually 87,000 small compared to some other busts like the guy in Florida who had a site with over 150,000 members. He got sentenced a couple months ago to 30 years, he's probably not going to live that long. He got caught because he slipped up and revealed his IP, also lead to 870 arrests.
http://www.naplesnews.com/story/new...0-years-running-child-porn-website/101331608/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-06/playpen-child-porn-site-creator-steven-chase-sentenced/8502626

That was just the one I came across when I was looking for another story on an Australian bust where there were over 70,000 members and authorities rescued 230 kids.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42108748/.../t/massive-online-pedophile-ring-busted-cops/


EDIT: Ugh, another one from just two months ago.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/queensl...zure-in-philippines-raid-20170514-gw4d2w.html


I really shouldn't have googled this.
 
I assume those who work there are child molesters themselves.

I mean who in the right mind would keep a straight face when operating those.

Lol okay.

I assume all surgeons are serial killers too? Who in their right mind would keep a straight face around all that gore.
 

Aureon

Please do not let me serve on a jury. I am actually a crazy person.
I assume those who work there are child molesters themselves.

I mean who in the right mind would keep a straight face when operating those.

"You must be a monster to fight monsters" is bullshit.
These brave men exposed to the lowliest of the low acts deserve nothing but praise.
 

GSG Flash

Nobody ruins my family vacation but me...and maybe the boy!
Disgusting, I hope they catch every single one of those 87000 fucks and put them away for life. What the hell is wrong with people.
 

msdstc

Incredibly Naive
I assume those who work there are child molesters themselves.

I mean who in the right mind would keep a straight face when operating those.

This was the post I mean to quote. This is a foolish point of view. You're criticising the people who make it possible to bring scum like this to justice.
 

Kinyou

Member
I assume those who work there are child molesters themselves.

I mean who in the right mind would keep a straight face when operating those.
Really now? We should be fucking thankful that there are people willing to put themselves through this and not accuse them of being pedophiles
 

LosDaddie

Banned
Ugh. Some sick motherfuckers on this planet. These bastards should be locked away for life. No parole. They're not gonna rehabilitate. They're not changing.

Then when they get caught abusing a child again folks will act shocked. Deal with it now for those caught and keep them locked up.

You're nicer than I am.

Cases like this are why I support the Death Penalty
 

FTF

Member
wtf, 87k members?! That's so sad and I hope all those kids and victims get the help they need. And I hope there's enough jail space for all those members. Just terrible.
 

velociraptor

Junior Member
This is why we should have the death penalty for exceptional cases.

How fucked up do you have to be to do this shit to kids.

WTF.
 

cw_sasuke

If all DLC came tied to $13 figurines, I'd consider all DLC to be free
This is fucking sick...good for destroying that plattform..but knowing that so many scumbags are out there is really scary and sad :-/
 
I almost applied for this very job a few years back. Couldn't get past the application form and the description of the job.

These people have regular mental health checks and counselling due to the content. Was trying for a kid myself at the time and I just noped right out of there.

Massive respect for these people.


Yep police investigators like Detective Brian Webbe of Monroe County that investigated Amir0x's case are true heroes. The disgusting shit they see must keep them up late at night. But they do it for greater good in order to catch these sick fucks that abuse children for their own sick and twisted gratification.
 

Musician

Member
One goes down, but how many more unknown sites/users are there out there... 87000 on one single site doesn't bode well 😔

Edit: can't they shut down Tor?
 
Would take some brave men/women to rehab those people, probably have to get therapy themselves.
Don't know about the therapists, but I'm sure I've seen a documentary on TV about the police units that investigate these websites and pedo rings and they get therapy because of all the disgusting images they have to see.

That is one fucking tough job and I salute anyone who can do it.
 

Kthulhu

Member
Sad but true. As someone else said I suppose the positives we can take from this is that this platform was 'only' up and running for 6 months, implying that more and more the Police are getting on top of that shit, and that nearly 90,000 of these sick fucks can no longer hide in the shadows.

As someone who couldn't log onto the 'dark net' if their life depended on it there doesn't seem to be any of value on there unless you're looking for upsetting images or someone to kill your SO.

Urgh.

I believe journalists in oppressive countries use it.
 
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