(January 21, 2016 at 7:37 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:(January 21, 2016 at 4:01 pm)abaris Wrote: Did you read the whole article? Makes sense. The pictures were already up and they didn't upload any new stuff. They just hoped to get to the real identity of the registered users.
Well if you happen to be a cop, then of course it makes perfect sense. Would that happen to be you? True to the philosophy of Machiavelli, the end always justifies the means, right? Doesn't matter how many people you encourage to view online, already-produced child porn for the first time - who cares when you get to pound your chest at the end of the day, pretending you did something to "fight crime". What about the child victims who were forced to pose for those pictures? You are exploiting them all over again, and they would be right to sue for that!
The FBI didn't encourage people to watch the porn as far as I'm aware. They took over the site and just allowed it to run. I've viewed porn for years and I've never accidentally come remotely close stumbling accross viewing very young children in porn. The situation, I'm guessing, with child porn is that the person accessing it pretty much knows what they're searching for without encouragement.
As for being sued it just makes me shake my head with disappointment that "SUE THEM" seems to be the first thought of people. Forget about punishing the individuals of the organization, changing protocols or anything actual productive, just subtract money from them and the problem will be resolved. They aren't even a business, money is nothing to them, it's a government organization, their money is the tax payers money.
I agree that keeping the pictures up raises some ethical questions. But on the other hand the pictures were up there for a significant amount of time already, I personally think it would be difficult to argue that the pictures being up there for another 2 weeks caused the victims any significant distress.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
