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CW:Child abuse. Vast pedophile network shut down in Europol’s largest CSAM operation
(arstechnica.com)
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I wanna barf.
Trying not to come to the realization that there's a lot more pedophiles than i ever imagined is getting harder every day. It's just media bias is just recency bias l... Right?
I feel like this story sort of confirms my view that cops and pedos are, how to put this, "Tom and Jerry": 1.8 million KidFlix users to 79 arrests at present, means that a pedo could directly participate in the sexual exploitation of children, and end up literally having a 99.996% chance of getting off scot-free — even if all 1,400 suspects do get arrested eventually, then that's still a 99.92% chance that a given pedo who created a KidFlix account, won't face any punishment for their actions. God is more likely to take the matter into His own hands by way of a freak accident, than cops are to even knock on a pedo's door with a warrant.
In that sense, one could say that there's a commonality between stealing someone's childhood and stealing someone's wages, in that the bourgeois state has to pretend to be opposed to both these criminalities, and might accordingly dispatch its police to "make an example of" a handful of the crime's offenders — but in reality the crimes are As Good As Legal™, because they still ultimately serve the same system as the cops do. So it's all a cartoon! It's pure spectacle! You'd have to be a damned fool to think Tom's ever gonna catch and eat Jerry once and for all!
Even apart from dedicated CSAM sites, it's mind-blowing how many adult men creep on minors on regular ass corporate social media, openly and publicly, with their full names and faces right fuckin there alongside their creepy messages. And it seems like the worst that ever happens to them is an account ban, maybe, if mods actually give half a shit.
I swear I heard (but I don't know where I might source this claim) that most CSAM on the Internet is distributed through regular ass corporate social media, in e.g. private groups named after obscure euphemisms.