FBI: The child pornographers are winning

Over the past few years, the FBI has made fighting online kiddie porn one of its top priorities and dedicated more agents to tracking down the people who trade these images online. The number of cases has skyrocketed, too, from a few hundred to 2,400 last year.

But it's not enough because so many other cases are slipping through the cracks, FBI Director Robert Mueller says. He says that's why the U.S. should require Internet service providers to retain user records for longer periods of time. (Two years, according CNET.)

Not-So-Fun Fact: Experts estimate the kiddie-porn business is a $20 billion-per-year operation, ABC News reports.

Comments

[jeano]

Maybe if they put child pornographers to death...? The ones in this country, I mean. I know a lot of the porn is imported.

[door king]

It's B.S. folks. I've read an appeal of a case in which an FBI agent testified that a Salina pizza emporium employee visited hundreds web sites known to contain child porn images. Now I have no doubt horrible people are trading in internet porn, but if you or I went looking for such sites, I'd wager we couldn't find a single one. No one would go looking, though. You'd end up in prison. And $20 billion. That's bigger than the heroin trade, that's bigger than dog food. That means every person in the world spends $4 on porn. B.S., B.S., my meter's way off the register. That's equal to 20 million people spending $1,000 annually on kiddie porn. B.S. B.S. B.S.

[kay]

BS is right, but it's a perfect way for the government to scare us into eventually regulating the internet, controlling the free flow of information, and taxing it -- all for the good of the children.
I think kiddie porn is way wrong, but I also think the government has escalated it to the "witch hunt" of this century.

[Quad Kings]

Door king & kay make interesting pausible arguments. Hmmm ...

[msfreeh]

for a partial list of crimes committed by
FBI agents including pedophilia, over 200 pages long, see

campusactivism.org
click on home in upper left
click on forum in upper right
scroll down to FBI WATCH

FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public

Updated: May 25, 2007 09:02 PM

Posted by, Marissa Pasquet KOLD News 13 News Editor

FBI Special Agent Ryan Seese, 34, is facing sex offense charges after a cleaning woman said she found him masturbating in a women's lavatory on campus, according to a University of Arizona police spokesman.

Seese was cited on suspicion of three misdemeanors, public sexual indecency, criminal trespassing and indecent exposure.

According to authorities, Seese was released to an FBI supervisor.

UA authorities say a cleaning woman opened a Student Union restroom stall, and spotted a man playing with himself.

She ran out of the lavatory and reported the incident to her supervisor, who called police.

UA Police say the woman pointed out the man to an officer taking her report.

Police says, when the officer tried to stop him, the man ran into a parking garage just north of the Student Union where he was caught, handcuffed and cited.

Police say Seese told the police officer he was with law enforcement.

It is unknown why Seese was at UA or where he is assigned in Arizona.

[DSW]

I wonder how many people will get arrested because a virus runs a script that reports back to a kiddie porn site?

It would mean that user's machine is talking to the kiddie porn site and wonder if the FBI is watching that type of stuff. Heck most hackers, when they want to do something really bad go though a hand full of hacked machines.

As for the kiddie porners put them all to death would be find with me.

[Moral City USA]

This is classic govt. Crying that the bad guys are winning so they can get more money. My God the federal govt and FBI are the largest bureacracies in history right now. How much more expensive does it need to get? Perhaps they should not have wasted so much money on those local massage parlor cases. Those are still dragging on and the tab is going ding ding ding.

And DSW, I have had porn sites slammed onto my machine when I was not even looking for it. If your machine goes there unwillingly and the FBI sees it, I dont know what happens. Perhaps you come home from work and find your door broken down, house ramsacked, computer gone and agents wait to arrest you.

[jack]

This is just one more piece of the right wing police state campaign. "Don't worry about us watching you, we will only use the information against the bad guys." If you believe that, you deserve to have some guy in a fedora and leather trench coat stop you on the street and say, "Papers. May I see your papers, please?" Only, when that guys asks, it's really not going to be a question.

How many rights are YOU willing to give up in order to be "safe"?

[Sasquach]

This law will never be upheld. The government cannot pass laws that would place an undue burden on businesses. Who is going to pay for all the storage that a company like Time Warner would have to purchase to retain the millions upon millions of records that would be required under this law.

[Jjjjjjjjjjjj]

Let's put em to death just after we put all the female teacher rapists to death. Actually doing a kid is worse than looking at pics you know.

Nasty, demented, ignorant, worthless, scum. Put all these sick M.F's on a ship and let the navy blaze away. Hell, I'll even fire the first round.

[Fima Fimovich]

My name is Fima and I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
I came to US as political refugee on human rights violations in former USSR
I am russian jew, and I got a lot of discrimination in USSR
My parents are Holocaust survivors.
But I got the worst thing in USA, never possible in communist country.
I was set up with my computer, convicted as a s..x offender for computer p..rn.
Now I do not have job and can hardly survive under police database
supervision, named s..x offender registration. Nobody want to hire me,
I think because of police database.
And I have family. Who cares? Dirty polititians are playing their
dirty games for more power.
I would like to send you some links to publications about my criminal
case. I was forced to confess to the
possession of internet digital pictures of p..rn in deleted clusters
of my computer hard drive. My browser was hijacked while I was
browsing the web. I was redirected to illegal sites against my will.
Some illegal pictures were found on my hard drive, recovering in
unallocated clusters, without dates of file creation/download.

I do not know how courts can widely press these charges on people to
convict them, while the whole Internet is a mess.
You can find all links to publications about my case here

http://estrinyefim.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/23/798199-internet-porn-hysteria

[AL]

This is just the RIAA and the MPAA trying to get the government to go after all file sharing programs. I for one do not think the government should go after people for downloading music or movies, let the greedy corporations take care of their own business.