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FBI "Took Over World's Biggest Child Porn Website" (telegraph.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from The Telegraph: The FBI took over the world biggest child pornography website in a sting operation intended to catch viewers of sexual images of children sometimes 'barely old enough for kindergarten', it has been revealed. The controversial operation ran for nearly two weeks last year, when the bureau took control of the Playpen website in an effort to weed out users who would normally be hidden because they accessed such sites through encrypted addresses. Agents have defended the dubious of ethics of a government agency running a child porn site by insisting there was no other way to catch offenders.
Hey, we're only doing the media keeps telling us, to think of the children.
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Well then, you might be disturbed to learn that the later stages of Operation SunDevil were aborted because the 2/3 of the child porn links resolved to .gov & .mil addresses and the remaining 1/3 was almost all .org registered to tax exempt religious organizations.
After signing up the local police of every state & the District of Columbia, the feds bailed at the last moment when they realized that the vast majority of registered users and providers of child porn were government and religious authorities.
They even had the sign in books of hotels in DC frequented by underage prostitutes and various government employees.