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Child Porn Is Being Hidden on Legal Commercial Websites (theguardian.com)

People who visit porn websites or search for adult pornography on the Web are facing the risk of being arrested for accessing child abuse images. The Internet Watch Foundation is warning that vicious minds are increasingly hiding criminal content on legal commercial websites, according to a report on The Guardian. The IWF found 743 websites in 2015, compared with 353 in 2013, in which child sexual abuse content was hosted on legal porn websites, and could be accessed if a special link was requested. From the report: "It has really started to become an accepted practice for the commercial side of the paedophilic community because this obfuscation technique is more effective at keeping its content live for longer," said Fred Langford, chief executive of the UK charity. Last year, the IWF found that 21% of the webpages containing illegal images and videos were commercial and those seeking to profit from the abuse were increasingly disguising it behind legal content, usually adult pornography. Langford said the trend raised the risk that people searching for adult pornography could unwittingly access child abuse images on disguised websites.

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  1. Nothing to see, move along. by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2, Informative

    Click bait / flamebait / nonsense-bait / bait.

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  2. Re:The Answer is Obvious by boristdog · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yes, this has the stink of Mormons all over it.

    You know, the ones who just declared porn a "public health crisis" because they can't control themselves.