Source: abcactionnews.com 11/4/21
A local sheriff is calling out big tech companies, saying they’re not doing enough to stop the spread of child pornography.
In late September, Polk County Sheriff’s Office investigators made a major bust, identifying suspects in possession of child pornography that originated from countries all over the world.
“They’re finding everything. They’re finding things that you can’t even conceive of or we can talk about publicly,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. “Two years old, four years old, seven years old, eight years old. This last case we had this guy brought his little girl since she was six over to this other guy for them to batter her while they took videos of it. “
Judd said pictures and videos of Polk County children are being shared by pedophiles all over the world.
“In the last operation, which we just had, we identified five child victims. Five,” Judd said.
The ABC Action News I-Team found that some companies reported millions of cases, while others were hardly reporting any at all. Experts said companies can take additional steps to identify and remove child pornography from their platforms.
I don’t care what he says publicly. The last thing Sheriff Elmer Fudd wants in this world is the elimination of CP from the web. It’s one of the cornerstones of those stupid stings he likes to parade around and pat himself on the back.
I can’t help but wonder how many armed robberies, murders, and drug crimes happen in his county while he’s so fixated on entrapping people for CP possession and such.
[edited] I’m certainly no fan of Big Tech or privacy intrusions but I agree in principle with the sheriff.
That is just like when the aftermath of 9/11 occurred, that there was the illusion of the growing threat of terrorism, but don’t know, when, where and how, and people get spooked by it, being fearful enough that they’re in a vulnerable situation that our US government will make us do what they want so that we feel we’re being protected.
Why should big tech not support it? They profit from it, they get users to their sites, and they aren’t held accountable. Do you suspect for one second taht any of them have a moral compass they are concerned with? CP was my charge. I used a computer, I used a browser, had and IP address, I used a bank credit card, I found a site that took multiple forms of payment for the images they uploaded, and out of all the people and institutions necessary to make the images available to me, guess who was the one and only one of all of them that was held accountable? You think the bank didn’t know what was being purchased, you think the IP didn’t know, you think the browser couldn’t detect what it was reading? No, this is a very lucrative industry for the injustice department. They have no intention of stopping the flow.
If he wants to get rid of cp then maybe have his deputies go after the people who produce those images, instead his deputies play minor online. Porn is big lure for some people and entraps more people into the registry net, making more money for Looney Tunes of Polk County.
UNFETTERED USE OF THE DATABASE!
Complain all you want Judd, but admit you were just fine enslaving offenders to the maintenance of the machine database for life. Admit you were just fine promulgating it upon the already convicted and without due process. Admit you were just fine with our leadership calling SOR a regulatory function and not a punitive function. Obviously you Sheriff Judd are just fine with shaming punishment. Hell you engage in it regularly on regular and social media with all sorts of colorful name calling. Admit you didn’t have any complaints concerning the adoption of US section 230 which granted liability protection to tech giants against those third parties who exploit the infrastructures for profit. Now here you are in this article complaining about the database purveyors not doing enough to regulate themselves and the uses of their platforms that exploit individuals? Go complain to your brethren, the Byrne Grant folks, and tell them about all the exploitation! They were the first to set the precedent. And you certainly applauded those actions by leadership.
I don’t think I have a problem with a tech platform that simply provides the tech and does no moderation or checking of it at all. When a person does something bad, why should someone else supposedly have been checking on them and held accountable? People need to accept their personal responsibility.
Other than that, I feel bad for porn victims, unless they support the Oppression Lists. But I don’t care at all how all of it affects true Registry A**holes/Supporters/Terrorists like these a**hole sheriffs. I hope it really bothers them and helps make their lives suck. That’s the Amerika they want. They can live it.
Maybe he is right. Since most child porn is put out by sherrifs for their “operations” or the FBI they should start by blocking LE from accessing their sites.
#1: What office is Grady Judd running for?? Or is his position as “sheriff” (in his county) an elected position and this is simply part of the incumbent’s ongoing campaign for reelection?
#2: But, of course, the problem of illegal images online is not a priority and has not been resolved….. and with good reason:
A: There is no public photo-op serving as an incentive for these fame-seeking LEOs to advance that effort. And…
B: LEO’S score lots of points for running online sex offender entrapment schemes and for the “performance art” perp walks or newspaper photo grid displays of those arrested.
Again, there’s no glory associated with simply or routinely removing online illegal images, so there is zero incentive to do so. I would guess that the LEOs’ performance evaluations are based on number of prosecutable arrests, not on doing routine, boring tasks, so why waste time on such things?
How many teens with access to cell phones have taken nude pictures or videos of themselves having sex? How many of those pics and videos get shared with classmates? Shouldn’t parents at least talk to their teens about these things before their inexperience comes to an ugly reality of being labeled a Cp producer, distributor, or viewer?