Microsoft Tip Leads To Child Porn Arrest In Pennsylvania

Shades of the recent arrest based on child porn images flagged by Google in an email, mrspoonsi writes A tip-off from Microsoft has led to the arrest of a man in Pennsylvania who has been charged with receiving and sharing child abuse images. It flagged the matter after discovering that an image involving a young girl had been allegedly saved to the man's OneDrive cloud storage account. According to court documents, the man was subsequently detected trying to send two illegal pictures via one of Microsoft's live.com email accounts. Police arrested him on 31 July.

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Re:Why do people even use this garbage?

[jratcliffe]

1. Does not compute because you clearly missed the point. We punish people for receiving stolen goods, because doing so reduces the demand for stolen goods, and reduces the appeal of stealing them in the first place. We punish people for possessing and distributing child pornography because doing so reduces the demand for the creation of child pornography and the sexual abuse that entails.

2. Yes, it's government censorship. Yes, the right to free speech isn't absolute - incitement to riot, libel, etc.

3. Since nothing will convince you otherwise, there's no point in continuing this discussion - your beliefs are an article of faith, like those of a New Earth Creationist.