(January 21, 2016 at 5:31 pm)abaris Wrote: Frankly, I can't understand that blue eyed view on that matter.
If law enforcement just took down every site featuring child porn, what do you think would happen. In fact, it does happen, if that's the approach. So let's take this site down, oh look, another one just popped up out of nowhere. What's this? Another server in Taiwan just went active. Let's block it. Oh, could it be, that site in Kasachstan is doing the same?
They try to get to the contributors and that's not possible, just by taking down there temporary homebase, thereby sending out a warning they're already on the radar. It's based on international cooperation and observation. And, in fact, every year, there are major busts based on cooperation between the FBI, Europol and other international police organisations. They can't root it out, they never will be able to do that, since for one, it's to lucrative a business and secondly, not every country is willing to cooperate.
But they do catch some. Which wouldn't even happen if lock and repeat was the only approach.
What are the dangers of a government violating the laws it is tasked to enforce? I don't doubt that sting operations can be useful, but if, say, a drug officer is empowered to sell cocaine, at what level is the government responsible for overdoses arising from said sale? Those laws are in place for a reason. Is the reason now invalid because the intent is different?
