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Facebook reported BBC journalists to the police after the reporters accidentally emailed them images of child sexual abuse, the social network's PR has alleged. The BBC was investigating private Facebook groups used to share both legal and illegal images, some of the latter of which featured children being abused. Its …

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      1. Cynic_999

        Re: Why *should* Facebook act?

        "

        Context is fairly important when a court decides if lower-grade stuff was indecent.

        If you're a facebook moderator, looking at a reported image of a kid in a bath and all the comments basically say "Phwoooaaarrr", then use your gut.

        "

        You appear to be saying that a person's guilt or innocence should depend on how a complete stranger has decided to comment on something you have posted. So you post a photo of your 3 year old daughter enjoying an ice-cream, someone comments, "Nice tits," and you go to jail.

  1. Jonski

    Two can play that game

    Could the BBC report Facebook for soliciting these images as well when it was asked to send the samples?

  2. Stuart Grout

    FB vs BBC?

    Not sure which side to take when it comes to the two loathsome organisations.

    FB's main fault in this case is that it is unable to closely monitor 1.8 billion active users in the way the BBC would like.

    Now FB may well be cooperating with the Police in some of these situations as a way of gathering evidence, much like the FBI took over and ran some child porn servers to get evidence against pedos.

    But then again it is the BBC so I really can't take their side given that the membership of many of these pedo groups probably log on from their BBC works computers.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: FB vs BBC?

      How do you class the BBC as a "loathsome organisation"?

      Please provide citations, references and links to back up your assertion.

      You make the claim that "the membership of many of these pedo groups probably log on from their BBC works computers". Again, some sort of proof that this is true would be good. e.g. court cases or disciplinary records.

      I'm sure you're not simply making this up, so we'd welcome your evidence. Indeed since you "probably" think that BBC people are members of paedophile Facebook groups, you must have something nobody else has.

      You can also contact the Met Police with your evidence, I'm sure they would love to hear from you. Indeed the right wing press in this country would probably pay you quite a lot of money for this.

      Or could it be you're simply a trolling twat with fuck all to do between wanking off to Pornhub.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Apparently we don't report it to the police...

    From the NCA site

    "If you have come across content online that you feel involves child abuse, please consider making a referral to the particular website administrators, and/or contacting the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) who could possibly arrange for the content to be removed."

  4. cantankerous swineherd

    IANAL, but understood kiddie porn to be strict liability offence,so the beeb and zuckerbook both going down? unless there's one law for them and another for us.

  5. eldakka

    So, basically, Big Black Cocks are involved in childporn?

  6. unwarranted triumphalism

    After this...

    Can anyone explain to me why I'm 'wrong' for having blocked Facebook in my hosts file?

    It's just a harmless fun website, isn't it?

  7. Conundrum1885

    The problem is

    When merely opening your browser, typing in a social networking site and because some random hacker or malicious person has diverted a link you now have EP on your profile, you and everyone else who goes on FB is guilty of an offense.

    SO why the hell is FB not blocked by ISPs until they fix it?

  8. A_Melbourne

    BBC == Westminster == Pedophilia

    The BBC, just like Facebook, protects pedophile rings.

    Happily, Trump is acting against pedophiles in a big way. Watch out brothers Podesta

    Think Pizzagate isn’t possible? 474 arrested in major pedophile bust throughout California

    These people are being "interviewed" and offered cooperation deals - in order to get those running these blackmail scams.

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