Worldwide porn networks smashed

[emad]

From BBC News:

Police say they have cracked a number of worldwide networks peddling child pornography. On Thursday Operation Odysseus saw simultaneous raids in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

It focused on people using internet boards to exchange child porn and followed a long intelligence operation. Europol say several people have been arrested and several computers and videos have been seized.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3490238.stm

Sounds like the US is next!

[Skidmore]

1. I have no problem with this type

of pornography being eliminated. Exploiting children in this manner cannot be justified in any way. It is slavery of the worst kind.

[underpants]

4. Agreed

This is sick sick stuff...I would imagine.

When I was in Germany to local tobacco shop in the town a girlfriend lived in had something like this. I used to stop there to get smokes and snacks and such, one day as I was leaving I see two boys on a beach on the cover of a magazine. It looked odd so I went and pulled up the mag from the rack...they were naked. I asked the owner what in the hell he was doing with this and he said,"It sells".

I never went back.

[Burma Jones]

2. Good On Ya Mate

The Internet does make it easier to both get this filth as well as nail those that peddle it.

[Newsjock]

3. Fox News Channel smashed?

Darn, I got my hopes up there for a minute.

[emad]

6. Hang in there for the good news, Newsjock....

no news yet of the US arm of this network but doesn't mean it won't happen...

[RandomKoolzip]

5. Maybe you should change the subject line...

Porn and Child porn are two VERY different things.

[emad]

7. The actual caption on the BBC news website for 'breaking news'

says "Police say they have smashed a global paedophile network"

[emad]

8. Here's more:

A spokeswoman for the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, which carried out the operation in the UK, told BBC News Online the material being exchanged was "particularly serious".

An earlier worldwide operation, codenamed Twins, targeting a group known as the Shadows Brotherhood, resulted in 120 arrests worldwide.

Mariano Simancas, of Europol's serious crime department, said: "Today's operation has exposed a complex and organised hierarchical structure that internet networks of paedophiles and child molesters are using to protect themselves, by hiding their identities and their atrocious activities.

"The international law enforcement community has again given a strong and efficient answer".

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3490238.stm

[Mushroom]

9. excellent news! n/t