The FBI ran a child pornsite to catch child predators and the predators call foul. Federal prosecutors are defending the FBI decision to Hijack and Peddle Child porn for two week as part of a sting operation to catch the distributors as well as the child predators who make it. Andrew Crocker staff attorney of EFF otherwise known as the Electronic Frontier Foundation thinks that the government abused its power all because they got a single warrant to hack into any computer that was visiting these child porn websites with any kind of limitations. The website they ran from Feb 20 to March 14 2015 was called playpen one of the biggest child porn and trafficking websites in the dark web which can be easily accessed with the help of torrent or …show more content…
The site playpen had over 215 thousand registered users consisting of child traffickers and pedophiles, this website also had over 23 thousand links to sexually explicit videos and pictures captured of children over 9000 of the files available for download some of these kids were not even old enough to attend kindergarten yet. The FBI was able to track down the computer service and traffic to servers here in North Carolina and in the month of February the FBI quietly seized the website and moved it to FBI servers in …show more content…
The FBI says the only way to crack such websites such as playpen and the silk road which has been seized numerous times and has came back numerous time is to seize and infect the website with hidden malware to trick the not so smart users into revealing their location allow them to trace back to people that use these horrific sites. The government always puts into consideration to seize any child porn site remove it immediately and permanently but the problem with that is that just stopped child trafficking on one website it would not stop the same people that are running the website from spreading it further through different mediums all through the dark web. Before you think simply take the website you have to think about all the other things that can happen like another one popping run by the people who was on the previously seized site this will just happen over and over, so why not let the FBI run the website for a week or two to catch these freaks from coming back and making more websites this is clearly not an easy decision they are split 50 50 on this