Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation.

• TheProtagonist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This has nothing to do with privacy! Criminals have their techniques and methods to protect themselves and their “businesses” from discovery, both in the real world and in the online world. Even in a complete absence of privacy they would find a way to hide their stuff from the police - at least for a while.

  In the real world, criminals (e.g. drug dealers) also use cars, so you could argue, that druck trafficking is a side effect of people having cars…

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, it does have to do with privacy and security, it just doesn’t matter if it’s legal or not for them. These people (in the US) always make a point that criminals will buy guns whether it’s legal or not, but then they’ll argue they need to destroy privacy because criminals are using it. It doesn’t make sense, but it doesn’t need to because honesty or consistency aren’t important.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This platform used Tor. And because we want to protect privacy, they can make use of it.

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    • sleen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This particular platform used tor. It doesn’t mean all platforms are using privacy centric anonymous networks. There are incidents with people using kik, Snapchat, Facebook and other clear net services to perform criminal actions such as drugs or cp.

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      • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        For anyone interested in the Kik controversy: There’s a great episode of the Darknet Diaries podcast about it: darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/

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