Court documents and interviews detail the products’ role in alleged exploitation – and how some payments go undetected

Court documents and interviews detail the products’ role in alleged exploitation – and how some payments go undetected

    • HelixDab2@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      What makes you think that law enforcement doesn’t? The bigger problem is that law enforcement is sometimes the people that are actively distributing and soliciting CSAM; in looking for child molesters, they enable child molesters and spread the CSAM created by child molesters.

      Back in something like 2018, the FBI took over and ran a website that distributed CSAM for several weeks. And after they were done assisting with the distribution of several terabytes of CSAM? Very, very few convictions. IIRC they boasted about over 100,000 unique visitors, but ended up with less than 10,000 arrests globally, and only a few hundred convictions. Some of which were tossed out because the FBI broke the law and lied on their warrants.

      • TheSlad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Assuming the 90-9-1 rule holds true, 10k arrests for 100k active users is actually pretty good for stopping child abuse. LEA has limited resources and can’t go after everybody, it makes sense that they would focus only on those that produce and share.

    • 0x815@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      They appear to do so, let’s hope they are successful:

      He prosecuted child sex predators. Now, he’s going after Meta for allegedly enabling them

      Less than a year into his new role as New Mexico’s attorney general, [Raúl] Torrez in December filed a lawsuit accusing Meta of creating a “breeding ground” for child predators and exposing young users to sexually explicit material. The complaint alleges that Meta employees have for years raised alarms that children may be at risk of sexual abuse on its platforms, but that the company has failed to adequately address the issue (Meta has firmly pushed back on the claims and says it has more than 30 safety and well-being tools for teens and parents).