FBI ran child-porn site for 2 weeks!

[rangerrebew]

FBI ran child-porn site for 2 weeks!
Privacy group says criminal case 'likely to impact digital privacy rights for years'
Published: 11 hours ago
 
There is no doubt that the crimes were “distasteful” and the law needs to be applied to those who engage in child pornography.

But one of the nation’s top privacy organizations is warning that the precedents the FBI set in its investigation of the “Playpen” case is “likely to impact the digital privacy rights of Internet users for years to come.”

Because the child porn site operator – for some two weeks – was the FBI. And bureau also hacked thousands of individuals’ computers in its investigation, based on a single search warrant.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the FBI in December 2014 received a tip from a law enforcement agency overseas that a Tor hidden service site, which conceals the users’ identities, called “Playpen” was filled with child porn.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/fbi-ran-child-porn-site-for-2-weeks/#bdEbmPD1qETFYPFq.99

[Oceander]

The author has a clear political agenda that has nothing to do with the sordid realities of child porn.

[Charlespg]

if it was to catch kiddie diddlers and people down loading child porn whats  the problem ?

[Oceander]

if it was to catch kiddie diddlers and people down loading child porn whats  the problem ?

The author's claimed beef is that by running the site for two weeks, the FBI allowed people to continue downloading images, and - according to the author - those images got shared to other people, thereby further abusing the children in those pictures.  Personally, I don't buy that argument.