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European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. (www.europol.europa.eu)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

The name of it sounds like a streaming service for children's movies and TV shows. Like, Netflix for kids. In the past 5 years I have seen at least 3 deepweb social communities that started out normally, with a lot of people talking shit and enjoying anonymous free speech. Then I log in a couple weeks or months later to find CP being posted and no mods doing anything to stop it. In all those cases, I reported the site to the FBI anonymously and erased my login from my password manager.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago

Goddam what an obvious fucking name. If you wrote a procedural cop show where the child traffickers ran a site called KidFlix, you'd be laughed out of the building for being so on-the-nose.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Geez, two million? Good riddance. Great job everyone!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Maybe Jeff Bezos will write an article about him and editorialize about "personal liberty". I have to keep posting this because every day another MAGA/lover - religious bigot or otherwise pretend upstanding community member is indicted or arrested for heinous acts against women and children.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Good fucking riddance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Excellent work. That’s an unimaginable amount of abuse material.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

During the investigation, Europol’s analysts from the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) provided intensive operational support to national authorities by analysing thousands of videos.

I don't know how you can do this job and not get sick because looking away is not an option

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

This kind of shit is why i noped out of the digital forensics field. I would have killed myself if I had to see that shit everyday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm sure many of them numb themselves to it, and pretend it isn't real in order to do the job. Then unfortunately, I'm sure some of them get addicted themselves.

Similar to undercover cops who do drugs while undercover, then get addicted to the drugs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

You do get sick, and I would be most surprised if they didnt allow people to look away and take breaks/get support as needed.

Most emergency line operators and similar kinds of inspectors get them, so it would be odd if they did not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

Yes, my wife used to work in the ER, she still tells the same stories over and over again 15 years later, because the memories of the horrible shit she saw doesn't go away

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Kidflix sounds like a feature on Nickelodeon. The world is disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

Or a Netflix for children/video editing app for primary schoolers in the early 2000s/late 1900s.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

And it didn't even require sacrificing encryption huh!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

Basically the only reason I read the article is to know if they needed a "backdoor" in encryption, guess the don't need it, like everyone with a little bit of IT knowledge always told them.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

They also seized 72,000 illegal videos from the site and personal information of its users, resulting in arrests of 1,400 suspects around the world.

Wow

[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago

1,393 suspects identified 79 suspects arrested Over 3,000 electronic devices seized 39 children protected

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