FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images

[paulpablo]

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.

I watch porn too, through free directory sites, and I do get nervous wherever the so-called legitimate "teen" category is hard to avoid. You know some of those you stumble on aren't in truth >=18 years old! Any POS can upload the girl he banged, no questions asked, and it makes me sick when I can only doubt the clip I've just seen was in any way vetted for informed, adult consent.

True but if I understand correctly the children in this case were infants, like I said I've never stumbled across even a hint of porn involving infants in my years of watching porn.  I'm guessing it's something you have to try and look for.