Comment on How Facebook Messenger and Meta Pay are used to buy child sexual abuse material
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 9 months agoWhat makes you think that law enforcement doesn’t? The bigger problem is that law enforcement is sometimes the people that are actively distributing and soliciting CSAM; in looking for child molesters, they enable child molesters and spread the CSAM created by child molesters.
Back in something like 2018, the FBI took over and ran a website that distributed CSAM for several weeks. And after they were done assisting with the distribution of several terabytes of CSAM? Very, very few convictions. IIRC they boasted about over 100,000 unique visitors, but ended up with less than 10,000 arrests globally, and only a few hundred convictions. Some of which were tossed out because the FBI broke the law and lied on their warrants.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Assuming the 90-9-1 rule holds true, 10k arrests for 100k active users is actually pretty good for stopping child abuse. LEA has limited resources and can’t go after everybody, it makes sense that they would focus only on those that produce and share.