Data.

The charity warns organised criminals are taking advantage of “systemic failures” in online security infrastructure.

Commercial websites host a wide range of child sexual abuse imagery which is available for users to buy. The imagery for sale can involve victims of all ages, and can include some of the most severe and extreme forms of sexual abuse.

Some of these sites have been deliberately disguised to appear as non-criminal sites or to look inactive in an attempt to operate on the open web while avoiding detection. Many of these sites accept payment via cryptocurrencies, card payments or money transfer services.

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    13 hours ago

    We can mobilize tens of thousands of ICE officers to get day laborers, but can’t afford a few hundred detectives to hunt down these eminently findable clearnet site operators.

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      25 minutes ago

      In all fairness, the ICE goons are probably hunting down a lot of these sites in their free time, if you catch my drift.

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      9 hours ago

      Well, who would have thunk that people would suffer and pedophiles would be enjoying safe havens if we put the Epstein class in charge of the country?

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      In “fairness”, all it takes to be an ice agent is two legs, a trigger finger and the ability to goose step with one hand raised. It takes a small amount of actual brain power to do real investigations