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.

Comments

In the name of National Secuirty

[Dorianny]

I think the only real issue people have with this is that if the FBI can justify such tactics then whats to stop them from doing the same to WikiLeaks

Re:ew

[ArylAkamov]

Don't forget that there are many young, underage kids that are now sex offenders in the glorious United States.

"Throughout the United States, children as young as nine years old who are adjudicated delinquent may be subject to sex offender registration laws"

http://bostonreview.net/blog/y...

http://www.sacurrent.com/sanan...

http://www.justicepolicy.org/n...

I can recall several years ago a story about two young girls, not even in middle school becoming registered sex offenders for sending pictures of themselves to each other. Under current laws, they were "producing child pornography".

Sure, there are a lot of sick fucks out there, but the current method is completely broken.