Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites

chrb writes "According to Security News Daily, Anonymous has taken down more than 40 darknet-based child porn websites over the last week. Details of some of the hacks have been released via pastebin #OpDarknet, including personal details of some users of a site named 'Lolita City,' and DDoS tools that target Hidden Wiki and Freedom Hosting — alleged to be two of the biggest darknet sites hosting child porn."

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Vigilances

[TechLA]

So vigilance actions are ok now?

I don't support them, but I sure as well don't support people who take it to their own hands to commit crimes like viruses and DDOS just because other people did wrong. They all should be taken to jail.

whenever child porn comes up on slashdot

[circletimessquare]

I look at the comments and I feel like I am at a NAMBLA convention

"think of the children" is just dumb useless hysteria, right?

you keep believing that

what i see is the reproductive imperative at work: not the social desire, but the biological need to produce healthy children. anything that is a threat to that basically means a threat to the continuation of your genes. therefore, yes, simple possession of pictures of children in sexually suggestive ways is pretty much an atavistic, primal declaration of war on the integrity of the reproduction of homo sapiens. sexual contact with children damages their psychological development in terms of self-image, identity, self-esteem, etc: weakening their ability to successfully pass on their parents' genes when they are adults

so wax and wane philosophical about free rights and liberties and fascism and hysteria, blah blah blah... zzz

your high and noble principles just ran into a buzzsaw: sexualizing children basically means going to war with the forces of evolution

the urge to protect children is primal, savage, rooted at a spot as deep as the need for food and shelter. there's a reason even in prison otherwise amoral impulse driven convicts will happily beat a pedophile to death: the opposition to the sexualization of children is something rooted so deeply in our biological makeup that no rationalization of yours will ever root around them

even just possession of pictures puts you at war with human society not on the grounds of abstract legal principles, but on the grounds of innate biological drive. and you're going to lose, either at the end of the parent's gun, in the courtroom, or at the end of a broom handle in prison

so any of you out there in possession of child porn and who thinks it harmless and everything is just hysteria: i strongly advise you to get rid of it, and do whatever the hell you can possibly do to get rid of this desire of yours to see children in a sexual manner

it will not end well for you otherwise. your compulsion is at war with the reproductive imperative, and you're not going to win

oh and ps: just possessing pictures of children (not teenagers who are physically mature) is indeed harmful: it gets produced somewhere. your possession and desire for that product is called demand. demand invokes supply. it is a simple economic formula, whether real money is involved or not. go ahead and try to argue around that all you want