You will be shocked when you see it zoom in on the Commonwealth of Virginia.And keep in mind Virginia needs $32 million dollars a year to fund this program to catch internet predators.
The House budget gives 1 million
The Senate budget gives nothing.
Let's compromise... on the full $32 million.
I couldn't agree more. This video makes me so angry I can't even say. The people who commit this evil need to be caught and punished, immediately, whatever it costs. Watch the video and then call your state representative ASAP!
P.S. We were shown this video (by The National Association to Protect Children) at "bloggers day" Thursday in Richmond and -- needless to say -- were totally horrified/enraged.
P.P.S. We were asked by the "Alicia's Law" lobbyist to call out Attorney General Bob McDonnell on his ridiculous" email initiative -- as if getting a list of online child abusers is going to accomplish anything?!? What a pathetic joke compared to the level of action and resources needed here.
As you can see from this study, child pornography is way more than just taking "dirty" pictures of children. Photos/videos of nude children exclusively accounts for only 1% of the pornography that these sick bastards peddle online.
However, I am very suspicious of some of the numbers being presented in this video and can't help wonder if we are being motivated and distracted by fear and anger (these tactics are very familiar after all) into skipping over something else.
I just cannot believe that over 350,000 people are involved in child-abuse video trading; that is a staggering number.
I have personally seen public prosecutors in other states exploit the public's shock and recoil about this topic for their own political ends, to propel a name for themselves into getting elected into office. These self-aggrandizing prosecutors tromped all over the justice system to get their name in the press, become district attorney, and then abuse that office to launch a successful bid for the US congress (and this from an alleged Democrat!).
Yes, child abuse and child pornography are serious crimes, and not to be tolerated, but every time I see people trying to rally huge public support to witch hunt a few individuals my internal alarm bells go off.
May you rot in hell Mike Arcuri.
Not to minimize in any way the problem of perverts out there on the web, but this sounds like someone trying to pad their budget with Federal funding and just does not pass the smell test.
I just cannot believe that over 350,000 people are involved in child-abuse video trading; that is a staggering number.
If you go through the nls links and read the article in the Fairfax Times, you'll find there are 20,000 computers in Virginia alone that have child pornography on them.
That number doesn't surprise me at all. The list of sexual predators in municipalities is mind-blowing. When I lived in California, a bedroom community just outside of San Jose had 5,000 sexual predators on their registry. It is a truly terrible sickness in the US. Groups where women post routinely have polls that show that more than 50% -- more like 60% or more -- of women experienced sexual abuse as children.
Anyone know differently?
According to Flint's congressional testimony, identifying individuals through their computers is fairly simple.Investigators initiate downloads and then identify Internet protocol (IP) addresses. Law enforcement officials can then obtain physical addresses from Internet service providers.
"Once an offending computer has been identified in the local jurisdiction, the investigator may download child pornography directly from the suspect computer," Flint's congressional testimony reads. "Once criminal conduct is confirmed, the investigator sends process to the [service provider]. This request will attempt to identify the physical address associated with the IP address."
When all the evidence has been collected and reviewed, and a physical address has been identified, local authorities can then decide to apply for a search warrant to search the property in question and seize the offending computer.
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/ne...
In other words, they search for porn, keep tabs of the IP addresses, and once they get enough evidence, get a warrant to search the physical computer.
Look at:
http://netforbeginners.about.c...
You say that is is not possible to do it.
Yet they have been catching people with tons of child pornography on their computers.
But you said that this is not possible to do because of the P2P technology.
Even if law enforcement is lying about the described technique for finding computers with child pornography, they obviously have some method that enables them to trace the source of these files.
This seems to indicate to me that either the technology itself has some kind of a flaw that allows for tracing, or that certain networks have been poorly configured so that they are not offering the protection that they could to child pornography file sharing pervs.
So the evidence indicate that law enforcement can trace the source of the images.
Since you don't like the official explanation, please explain how they do it.
Enlighten us.
Yes absolutely, serious issue. But I question the credentials of this special agent. I am not sure he knows that much about technology.
Just because 80% of the crap in my email inbox is spam does not mean that 80% of internet users are spammers....
Likewise, it looks to me like someone is thinking that because .5% of their email claims to be child porn that .5% of internet users are involved in it...
Sigh.