Bitcoin and kiddie porn

[blckhawk]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/police-arrest-hundreds-over-international-child-sexual-abuse-website

You give people privacy, they use it.

One drawback of the anonimity bitcoin can provide its users. Although exchanges that implements KYC could help, it is still a lot harder to backtrack the transactions made to the specific persons involved. Sure, they can get the bitcoin address but they can't really figure out whom it was.

Until there are no standard regulation and identification of bitcoin addresses is made, all these illegal transactions would still exist. It has been known to the community that it's being used to these acts, mostly in the deep web. Privacy and freedom to transact almost anywhere without intermediary os beneficial, but could also be harmful, depending on who uses its capabilities.

[coinhunt]

I think the reason lies not in Bitcoin which give people privacy and anonymity but in people themselves. Or you want to say that the amount of sick and down-at-heel people is increasing since Bitcoin had been launched? Nope, they always existed and they don't need Bitcoin to hide and find a way to bring their darkest dreams and desires into reality.

[qiman]

Bitcoin has nothing to do with the rise of children's pornography. It is primarily access to the internet and also poverty in many countries, that is spearheading the child pornography niche market. How much percent of the population actually used Bitcoin compared to those using Fiat? Much smaller is this percentage, but they want to make a bad name for Bitcoin as an excuse to lobby against it. Yet, they have been using FIAT for years for criminal activities, child porn, and to wage wars. It's as if child porn never existed before and they keep bringing this stupid argument up that it's Bitcoin's fault for the rise in child porn.

[Rodeo02]

Bitcoin has nothing to do with the rise of children's pornography. It is primarily access to the internet and also poverty in many countries, that is spearheading the child pornography niche market. How much percent of the population actually used Bitcoin compared to those using Fiat? Much smaller is this percentage, but they want to make a bad name for Bitcoin as an excuse to lobby against it. Yet, they have been using FIAT for years for criminal activities, child porn, and to wage wars. It's as if child porn never existed before and they keep bringing this stupid argument up that it's Bitcoin's fault for the rise in child porn.

You are right they just use bitcoin as payment and nothing more it will not add or less child pornography .
Even without bitcoin this scenario will still continue they will use other online payment , It just shows how effective bitcoin payments can be in terms of online transactions .

[xiboothrezi]

Why are there more threads like this? have to go to another link to get information, why not just summarize it and write it down for discussion?
I can't help but do it because it's quite interesting.

This is one of the abuses of freedom in cryptocurrency, anonymously. Difficult to trace. We must be able to be wiser in using the internet. Whereas sexual exploitation of children, pornographic content can stand alone without cryptocurrency, or with other payment systems, this only adds to the poor image of cryptocurrency.

[Zionatin]

Sure. Blame privacy. How come 99.9% of use also have privacy but do not do this shit? How come? Clearly, the problem is not privacy but the sick and twisted individuals themselves.

For me there is two kind of paedophiles...

The "good phedophile" Someone who knows they have urges towards children or want to engage in relationships with children but decide not to and withhold themselves. These are people who know they are sick and do not choose to be sick but are forced to live with it. Most of these people never abuse children but fight the constant urge. I have some sympathy for these people since it truelly is not their fault they are the way they are and they accept and realize it is an issue. These people deal with their sickness responsibly.

The Bad paedophiles... These are the scum of the earth. They either do not know nore do not care that they are sick. They see no problem with their behaviour. These are the type that abuse children and feel nothing. Collect pictures and videos and spread them around the internet. True pieces of shit. They do not even try to fight their urges and actually feel nothing for their victims. The "good paedphile" would feel extremely guilty or possible take their life of they did what the bad paedophiles did. The bad ones do not care a bit though.

There is hope for the "good paedohpile" but none for the bad. The only answer is to put them down, I want to say put them down like a sick dog but even the illest of dogs is amazing in comparison.

[kryptokant]

Criminals always find ways. And they are leading innovation often, which has positiv aspects as well.
It is like a cat and mouse game. Most crime happens via USD... but in some years there is no classic cash anymore.. but what if there is a market niche for a cash, then sth will fill that niche

[Golftech]

Bitcoin has nothing to do with the rise of children's pornography. It is primarily access to the internet and also poverty in many countries, that is spearheading the child pornography niche market. How much percent of the population actually used Bitcoin compared to those using Fiat? Much smaller is this percentage, but they want to make a bad name for Bitcoin as an excuse to lobby against it. Yet, they have been using FIAT for years for criminal activities, child porn, and to wage wars. It's as if child porn never existed before and they keep bringing this stupid argument up that it's Bitcoin's fault for the rise in child porn.

Mass media taking it as a good click bait knowing that people will be interested with news behind Bitcoin. The general issue is not Bitcoin but the child pornography but since attaching Bitcoin to this kind of news will attract more readers and followers so it's best for publicity to dragged Bitcoin even this crytpo currency is not really the issue behind. Admit it or not this is really just for bringing audience to the site.

[Eclipse26]

Regardle of the means of transaction, cyber crime is still there. It's not only about bitcoin because evwn with fiat, crimes like this are still rampant. They're just using it since it's hard to trace transactions. Like as always, their taking too much advatage from bitcoin.
Anonymity is not a bad side of bitcoin. It only depends on the situation if they're using it for bad purposes. Bitcoin was never intended for people like them.

Big yuck to those who love children pornography.

[Oasisman]

I think the reason lies not in Bitcoin which give people privacy and anonymity but in people themselves. Or you want to say that the amount of sick and down-at-heel people is increasing since Bitcoin had been launched? Nope, they always existed and they don't need Bitcoin to hide and find a way to bring their darkest dreams and desires into reality.

No matter how positive was the goal to create such technology like Bitcoin, there are always those who used it in a distinctively abusive way. So, with that I have to agree with you. Looking at the bigger picture, Bitcoin has nothing to do with how the criminals used it because of its  complete anonimity when doing transactions, because It wasnt designed to be used that way in the first place.
So, media who always drags down Bitcoin everytime a crime happened which involves Cryptocurrency is pure stupidity.

[Murat]

That's so bad to bring the worst reputation for this platform, I think this type of news is getting spread out massively and the government will disclose the bad impact of this cryptocurrency. when people see the worst things in here, then they will also get disinterested about this platform, I think every coin has two sides, but people only talk about the dark side of the cryptocurrency, but it has a lot of good impact in our community those are not published yet in the public media. so we have to reveal the goodwill of this platform so that people's perception will get changed and they will feel safe about this virtual platform.