Korea-based dark web child porn bust leads to 338 arrests worldwide

[Freighter]

Law enforcement officials said on Wednesday they had arrested hundreds of people worldwide after knocking out a South Korea-based dark web child pornography site that sold gruesome videos for digital cash.

Officials from the United States, Britain and South Korea described the network as one of the largest child pornography operations they had encountered to date.

Called Welcome To Video, the website relied on the bitcoin cryptocurrency to sell access to 250,000 videos depicting child sexual abuse, authorities said, including footage of extremely young children being raped. Its upload page specifically stated, "Do not upload adult porn."

"Darknet sites that profit from the sexual exploitation of children are among the most vile and reprehensible forms of criminal behavior," U.S. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski said.

Officials have rescued at least 23 underage victims in the United States, Britain and Spain who were being actively abused by users of the site, the Justice Department said. Many children in the videos have not yet been identified.

The site's vast library - nearly half of it consisting of images never seen before by law enforcement - is an illustration of what authorities say is an explosion of sexual abuse content online. In a statement, Britain's National Crime Agency said officials were seeing "increases in severity, scale and complexity."

Welcome To Video's operator, a South Korean named Jong Woo Son, and 337 users in 12 different countries, have been charged so far, authorities said.

Son, currently serving an 18-month sentence in South Korea, was also indicted on federal charges in Washington.

Several other people charged in the case have already been convicted and are serving prison sentences of up to 15 years, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Welcome To Video is one of the first websites to monetize child pornography using bitcoin, which allows users to hide their identities during financial transactions.

Users were able to redeem the digital currency in return for "points" that they could spend downloading videos or buying all-you-can watch "VIP" accounts. Points could also be earned by uploading fresh child pornography.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nat...51_277254.html

[Mythic-RaidLead]

Good, child pornographers and anyone downloading that crap should be arrested.

[Rustedsaint]

Good all those sick bastards should be sent to jail

[Lanrefni]

And just think of how many more arrests would occur world wide if law enforcement agencies actually spent more on busting child porn than they do on printer ink.

[Mythic-RaidLead]

Ideally, all adults, regardless on whether they've committed the crime or not who are sexually attracted to children should be reprogrammed if we get to that point. Mere sexual attraction to a 10 year old is disgusting and should not be tolerated. Just because they have not offended does not make it "ok". And yes, before someone complains I am advocating for "thought crimes", understand there ARE exceptions to everything. Thought crimes are generally bad, but there are exceptions.

[kail]

More importantly is arresting the content creators and those who raped the kids in the videos.

[Easo]

Ideally, all adults, regardless on whether they've committed the crime or not who are sexually attracted to children should be reprogrammed if we get to that point. Mere sexual attraction to a 10 year old is disgusting and should not be tolerated. Just because they have not offended does not make it "ok". And yes, before someone complains I am advocating for "thought crimes", understand there ARE exceptions to everything. Thought crimes are generally bad, but there are exceptions.

So what are those exceptions? And what is greater, a person who has these urges, but suppresses and never acts on them because he is a normal human being, or a self righteous hypocrate?

More importantly is arresting the content creators and those who raped the kids in the videos.

I am assuming that they are getting them too.

[Temp name]

While I do feel bad for the children, my first thought went out to the people who have to watch the videos to try and identify the children. That cannot be a nice job

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Ideally, all adults, regardless on whether they've committed the crime or not who are sexually attracted to children should be reprogrammed if we get to that point. Mere sexual attraction to a 10 year old is disgusting and should not be tolerated. Just because they have not offended does not make it "ok". And yes, before someone complains I am advocating for "thought crimes", understand there ARE exceptions to everything. Thought crimes are generally bad, but there are exceptions.

As long as they don't act on their urges or contribute to people who do, they can be attracted to whatever the fuck they want as far as I'm concerned. I don't care if you have a fetish children getting raped, as long as you understand that you should never, ever, seek out that fetish (Outside of roleplaying with a consenting partner), you're fine.

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More importantly is arresting the content creators and those who raped the kids in the videos.

From the language in the article it seems they have found some of them. They mentioned rescuing some of the children, which is fantastic

[Yadryonych]

Meanwhile liberals out there are making it normal, just like they made homosexualism a new norm
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[Infraction]

[Temp name]

Meanwhile liberals out there are making it normal, just like they made homosexualism a new norm
[IMG]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/361339571679526913/634764911620259871/pedos.png[IMG]

Don't try to equate homosexuality to paedophilia..

[TigTone]

I will always say this.

Child abuse should carry heavy time in prison not this bull shit of 10 years or less.

The abused children’s lives and mental health is damaged for their entire life.

[Mythic-RaidLead]

Meanwhile liberals out there are making it normal, just like they made homosexualism a new norm

Pedophilia =/= homosexuality. Two adult men can consent. A child and an adult cannot.

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As long as they don't act on their urges or contribute to people who do, they can be attracted to whatever the fuck they want as far as I'm concerned. I don't care if you have a fetish children getting raped, as long as you understand that you should never, ever, seek out that fetish (Outside of roleplaying with a consenting partner), you're fine.

I don't think they should have those urges to begin with. They should accept mental reconditioning.

[Daedius]

Hang the sick degenerates by their balls.

[Mythic-RaidLead]

So what are those exceptions? And what is greater, a person who has these urges, but suppresses and never acts on them because he is a normal human being, or a self righteous hypocrate?

The exceptions that it's sometimes ok to control the thinking processes of even those who have not committed a crime. For those who have not offended, they will not be forced to change against their will, but we will implement pressures to get them to change. Sending harassing letters from the government for them to accept reconditioning, witholding UBI from them until they accept, etc. Many ways to obtain a consent without both parties agreeing.

[Temp name]

I don't think they should have those urges to begin with. They should accept mental reconditioning.

but that doesn't exist, so tough shit.

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The exceptions that it's sometimes ok to control the thinking processes of even those who have not committed a crime. For those who have not offended, they will not be forced to change against their will, but we will implement pressures to get them to change. Sending harassing letters from the government for them to accept reconditioning, witholding UBI from them until they accept, etc. Many ways to obtain a consent without both parties agreeing.

THERE IS LITERALLY NO WAY TO OBTAIN CONSENT WITHOUT BOTH PARTIES AGREEING.

Jesus fucking Christ, dude.. That's literally what consent is. If you don't need both parties to agree, then child rape is legal.

[Calfredd]

but that doesn't exist, so tough shit.

Well sure it does. All you need is an ice pick and a hammer. /s

[Socialhealer]

Should be 338 hangings.

[Gaidax]

Good riddance.

[GreenJesus]

Daaaamn. Now That's a lot of damage!

But man.. it's pretty weird when you consider law enforcement people would actually have to watch the evidence....and the jury/judge too.

[Gaidax]

But man.. it's pretty weird when you consider law enforcement people would actually have to watch the evidence....and the jury/judge too.

We had some police officers over here caught and jailed over abusing this. They literally traded "evidence" in a shady manner between themselves and others.