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Can we beat the Yanks? Yes we can!!
Europe now hosts majority of child sex abuse images (60 per cent), pushing North America into second place (37 per cent), according to an annual report from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). In contrast, UK now hosts less than 0.1 per cent of child sexual abuse imagery globally, something IWF credits as down to a "zero …
Any organisation with a vested interest in a "morality" issue - will often fall into the trap of over-egging their statistics.
In England & Wales any photograph, painting, drawing, cartoon, or sculpture that shows someone who might look under 18 - even if clothed - can potentially be portrayed as illegal.
I'm not sure it's just Amazon, it seems to be something about the Netherlands - maybe flawed law enforcement, or maybe they get tax revenue from letting it be?
Dutch mobile phone numbers have been featuring for years in Nigerian 419 scam junkmail, and I've also seen an increase in hacking attempts coming from the Netherlands - it's now at a level that it starts overtaking OVH as a major source of those. It's almost as if nobody seems to care much about it.
The article says 1572 used such methods to hide content.
It also says that Holland has 20972 abusive (under UK law) URLs representing 37% of the total. Working back, that means an overall total of around 57000 sites around the world were uncovered. The proportion using hints to lead users to these sites is therefore only about 2.8%.
It also says that Holland has 20972 abusive (under UK law) URLs representing 37% of the total
Presumably, this is just the opinion of the IWF. For a URL - is it URLs or websites - to definitely be abusive under UK law would require a UK court to find it so, or is just the word of the IWF good enough?
Why should UK law matter, though?
If it were photos of recorded footage, that'd be one thing entirely...
But, for example, drawings are illegal in the UK (which is retarded, but that's another topic for debate entirely) and completely legal in Denmark.
If - again, for example - the UK told Denmark to close down an art site with said drawings on because they're illegal in the UK, which is a completely different country to the UK with it's own set of laws (there's a shocker), Denmark should be bluntly telling the UK to fuck off.
And this is why I utterly hate the IWF, because they're a self-appointed organization which gets to dictate what the UK and what the rest of the world sees based on their own subjectivity.
If they know about so many sites, then Shirley they would already have been taken down !!
And how do they manage to find these hidden sites, I must admit that I have never stumbled across anything that contains child porn and I am by no means an angel.... Ok, I don't go looking either but the figures suggest a hell of a lot of sites...
I am always reminded of a David Frost satirical sketch many years ago. The fictional scenario was him interviewing a member of a "clean-up TV" group. The interviewee claimed to be able to classify a programme just by its title - without needing to watch it. The "filthiest" programme in his judgement - "Blue Peter".
The sketch ends with David Frost saying something like "So your mind is very good at this" - and the man replies that he can find "filth" everywhere that most people wouldn't even suspect.
Europe has been getting more child abuse sites, or because the US has been cutting down the number? The FBI has been making some high profile takedowns in the past couple years, that has to causing them to move or at least go so deep underground they are no longer counted in surveys like this one.
"The FBI has been making some high profile takedowns in the past couple years, [...]"
IIRC there was an alleged scandal a few years ago - that the FBI were running undercover operations that were responsible for a significant amount of this material circulating in the USA.
The FBI 'takes over' active pedo sites so they can reel in as many of their regular customers as possible. If they just took them down the instant they could, they wouldn't be able to catch them.
So yeah, while effectively the FBI is distributing child porn during that interim, the pedos who are viewing it would simply go elsewhere for their fix if the FBI took down the sites as quickly as possible. Keeping them operational for a few weeks longer ensures that a number of them are caught and removed from society so the ones who do more than just look at pictures can do no further harm.