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submitted 3 weeks ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

German police say they have shut down a "dizzyingly large" child sexual abuse image website with hundreds of thousands of users. Six people with links to the network were arrested.

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[-] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 49 points 3 weeks ago

…hundreds of thousands of users

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[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 weeks ago

Six people with links to the network were arrested.

[-] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

I can understand only arresting 6 people, because I doubt very many people had their hands on the actual website. But the fact that hundreds of thousands of people actually interacted with the site is downright mind boggling.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 12 points 3 weeks ago

If it's any comfort (it might not be), a few hundred thousand out of like 8 billion is a pretty small percentage. It's troubling that it evaded the law for long enough to accumulate that many users in one place, though :/

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's 1 in ten thousand. Likely much more in Europe or North America, accounting for people without reliable Internet access and non-English speakers. There's statistically at least a hand full in your city, if it's larger than a village

[-] webpack@ani.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

it could be you, it could be me, it could even be-

[-] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

Phrasing on that headline. 😂

[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yea, it is quite unfortunate

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 11 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, but did they take down the website only, or did they also take down the content they mostly link to?

In the past, there have been investigations by multiple news outlets where they found that German police would routinely seize forums and domains where links to CP were posted but would not request the hosting providers of the linked content to delete the material.

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I heard about this on the Radio yesterday, IIRC they have information on a good amount of the users. I hope they find them.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

They smashed it? What, did they hit the server with a sledgehammer? Did a cop turn into The Hulk? What?

German police say they have shut down a "dizzyingly large" child sexual abuse image website

Bah.

[-] boreengreen@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yea, the title suck.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 7 points 3 weeks ago

How the fuck someone can hoard 14 fucking terabytes of sick photos???

I hope everyone involved in the production of such material spends the rest of their lives in a Guantanamo style box

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

data storage detection dogs

didnt know dogs were used for this too!

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Hundreds of thousands of users??

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

some of them might even be Lemmy users...

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

A++ Would smash again.

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