Re: IWF

["L. Bird" <pkeets@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This looks to be the standard Catch-22 with the anti-child porn sites--not 
just IWF.  They post all sorts of web addresses and phone numbers to report 
child porn, but then remind you it's illegal to look at it.

This is one of the things I'm complaining about in the approach.  If the 
public were actually turned loose to check and report these sites, I think 
something more would be done about them.  There would be much more outcry 
about the pictures and the abuse.  Keeping the public away from them is 
protection of a sort.

keets


> > In this case they come across more as hypocrites.
> > They urge the public to report illegal content, but
> > their actions appear to be that they may then condemn
> > you publically before you are charged with a crime
> > much less proven guilty.  Oh, and they won't bother
> > checking to corroborate your claim to have contacted
> > them in good faith before they join in the press
> > witch-hunt. But yes, by all means, trust us when you
> > report.
> >
> > The really fucked-up thing about the police/press leak
> > of suspects in Operation Ore, and then groups like IWF
> > joining in the feeding frenzy, is that all the
> > THOUSANDS of real pedophiles whose names are on the
> > list are given plenty of advance warning to destroy
> > their hard drives.  If it all had been kept
> > confidential, as I'm sure UK law proscribes, the
> > authorities could have apprehended far more real
> > criminals and saved far more real victims than through
> > this travesty.
> >
> >
>
> I really enjoyed this, Ken.  Plain old common sense.  That will make a 
> great
> complaint letter for when the hard evidence arrives and we attack they 
> asses.
>
> Jon in Mi.

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