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German police say they have shut down a "dizzyingly large" child sexual abuse image website with hundreds of thousands of users. Six people with links to the network were arrested.

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[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

…hundreds of thousands of users

ಠ_ಠ

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Six people with links to the network were arrested.

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can understand only arresting 6 people, because I doubt very many people had their hands on the actual website. But the fact that hundreds of thousands of people actually interacted with the site is downright mind boggling.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it's any comfort (it might not be), a few hundred thousand out of like 8 billion is a pretty small percentage. It's troubling that it evaded the law for long enough to accumulate that many users in one place, though :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's 1 in ten thousand. Likely much more in Europe or North America, accounting for people without reliable Internet access and non-English speakers. There's statistically at least a hand full in your city, if it's larger than a village

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

it could be you, it could be me, it could even be-

[–] Kronusdark 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Phrasing on that headline. 😂

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Yea, it is quite unfortunate

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, but did they take down the website only, or did they also take down the content they mostly link to?

In the past, there have been investigations by multiple news outlets where they found that German police would routinely seize forums and domains where links to CP were posted but would not request the hosting providers of the linked content to delete the material.

[–] SassyRamen 8 points 1 week ago

I heard about this on the Radio yesterday, IIRC they have information on a good amount of the users. I hope they find them.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They smashed it? What, did they hit the server with a sledgehammer? Did a cop turn into The Hulk? What?

German police say they have shut down a "dizzyingly large" child sexual abuse image website

Bah.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Yea, the title suck.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

How the fuck someone can hoard 14 fucking terabytes of sick photos???

I hope everyone involved in the production of such material spends the rest of their lives in a Guantanamo style box

[–] breadsmasher 5 points 1 week ago

data storage detection dogs

didnt know dogs were used for this too!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hundreds of thousands of users??

[–] GreenKnight23 1 points 1 week ago

some of them might even be Lemmy users...

[–] TokenBoomer 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

A++ Would smash again.