Sheriff Grady Judd says tech companies are not doing enough to take down CP
In the fall of 2019, The New York Times reported a record 45 million online photos and videos of CP, with the problem growing exponentially.
Since the Times article came out, some police departments have spent money trying to update their technology departments in hopes of curbing the problem, but it has not been effective. The problem is growing worse. Is it because the strategy continues to be going after the viewers/possessors instead of channeling money into taking the pictures down? Does the United States not have IT geniuses capable of taking on this task?
Concerning CP, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said, “There’s a finite number of people that deal in this horrific stuff. It’s not a bottomless well. It can be stopped and it could be stopped rather easily by our tech giants who employ tech geniuses.”
But some tech geniuses said because there are so many different platforms and tricks…they don’t expect it to go away anytime soon.
Retired U.S. Secret Service Agent Gus Dimitrelos worked in the field for 25 years and said we have not even put a dent in the problem. “It’s not going anywhere and it’s getting worse because the ability to store data online has grown exponentially just in the past four years.”
It has been said by some in law enforcement that if every viewer/possessor of CP could be found and put in prison, we do not have the prison space to house everyone – not even close.
So, this problem has been going on for decades. Not only has there been no improvement in the situation, but it is getting worse. Isn’t it time to try a different approach? Someone once told me that it is just too easy to click on a mouse. Then take down the pictures so that there is nothing to click on.
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The government never had the manpower (or even the power) to distribute 45 million child sexual abuse images to the public. Nor do they have the manpower to locate it all.
I feel like I shouldn’t even have to point that out.
It’s true that government agents have distributed this material. Just as it’s true that convicted sex offenders have engaged in serial abuse and even kidnapping. But neither of those types of anecdotes are a good basis for public policy, are they?
If I’m wrong, and we have solid evidence that the government is in fact behind the child pornography problem, then there is a path to the solution: present the evidence to your elected representative, so they can launch an investigation.
Because if there’s anything legislators love to do, it’s beat up publicly on executive-branch agencies. They love to do that, AND they (as much as we) hate child pornography. As do their constituents, so this will be their chance to be a hero, attract campaign donations, and win re-election.
What would stymy a lawmaker from investigating government child pornography? The prospect of losing donations from Big Child Pornography? Don’t be silly. They would only be reluctant if they perceive that the evidence is not credible and will lead to a dead end where they look foolish. OR, perhaps such investigations have already been done, and that’s how we know about this and why we continue to blame the government.
Anyone want to take this on? Alternatively, we could just throw up our hands, declare that the government will always be behind everything bad, and give up on our public safety mission.
I definitely agree with you on everything you said. Ironically I said almost the samething you are said in another post. Except my post was censored by FAC. However, my post pointed fingers a specific state reps. Which just so happened that most of those political figures belonged to a certain political party. Judging by you post, I’m gathering that you can conclude the political figures that I was referring to
Expecting big tech to help with this is like as asking the auto industry to help prevent drunk driving…oh, wait, Congress has just done that for the auto industry: Congress mandates anti-drunk driving technology for cars https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/10/congress-mandates-anti-drunk-driving-technology-for-cars/
Therefore, big tech can help if they want through legal terms of service but make sure they do it as the war on drugs was supposed to do…go after both the source and the user…if they don’t want Congress to get involved.
I hope FAC will publish this comment. I try to post stuff for everyone to take notice of and some never get posted. I think this is important.
I don’t always agree with Lauren Chen (a YouTuber I follow) and I don’t agree with some of what she says here. Why? Because she’s talking out of both sides of her mouth. While acknowledging that there are people in this world with mental illness, she also says she doesn’t care how someone with pedophilia feels.
But she is not the main focus of my reason for posting this for you guys. The video she is responding to is very detrimental to our cause. People, like the 2 men in the video she is responding to, are going to make it so that the registry remains as is. Someone on the left needs to tell others on the left to cut it out with this crap!
https://youtu.be/81DAYPg-cLc
Huh?valid question was itnot?
Remember who started the so called “Dark Web” …. Our wonderful government 🤔
I was wondering why, that in FL, there are very few women per capita of the registry..maybe 1 in 100, whereas like in GA and NC there seem to be 1 in every 30 or so…It may a larger difference than that even. Why would that be, if true? (FAC NOTE: CITATION NEEDED)