Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing. The manipulated image could then be used against the child to blackmail them into sending more graphic content, the IWF said.

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      Government/police insist on having basically unlimited ability to spy on people within the US, and then maybe catch a part of one operation after collecting heaps of evidence over months/years with tons of victims irrevocably harmed - and eventually a few main people get like 3-5 years in prison on a plea deal.

      I get the whole “building a case” thing, but letting multiple children get abused, while other sickos learn the ropes to eventually “get enough evidence” so a few people can plead guilty for a comparatively light prison sentences is absurd. Shut anything about it down immediately. Even if it doesn’t go to trial/conviction I’m sure the police have creative capacities to deal with child abusers outside of prison.

      And people still think sex education in school is about teaching children how to preform sex acts, instead of helping them avoid predators.

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        Meanwhile when police do get more ability to spy, they’ll raid the houses of environmental groups or other activists they spied on within a month.

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        Govt is spying on us to force us into espionage or other acts (eg witness testimony). They don’t care about harm done to others unless there’s an outcry.

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        Hint, police doesn’t actually give a shit about hypothetical children getting harmed. This all a ploy to get the idiotic population to accept and even demand the police to invade everyone privacy.

        Imagine Bill Clinton’s secret service agents on Epstein’s loliplane. Think they gave too shits about old people fucking 17 year olds ?