Anti-Child-Porn Tactic Criticized

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Source: Washington Post


Thwarting Payments Makes Users Hard to Track, Report Says

The decision yesterday by three Internet service providers to block access to online child pornography is the latest in a series of steps by companies and government officials to curb the distribution of such materials. But a report to be published later this month questions whether such actions are making it more difficult to track users.

The report, by the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography, formed by credit card issuers and Internet service providers to cut off funding for these crimes, states that the efforts are pushing child pornographers toward unregulated Web companies that allow anonymity in purchases.

"One of the first things that happened when we began shutting down the credit card avenue is that these guys began to look to other ways to get money quickly," said Ernie Allen, president and chief executive of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, based in Alexandria.

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Government efforts to disrupt alternative currency services have not proven successful, critics say.

Washington Post

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Now we are getting to the heart of the matter, tracking monetary transactions on the Internet.

It was difficult to understand the sudden 'caring' for children while living in a country that maintains an indiscriminate survival of the fittest towards its children who are 'food insecure' (hungry) and living in poverty (cars and shelters) or allows it agency, the EPA to run 'test' on children, or holds the #1 position in human-sex-trafficking (women and children).

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1. Follow the money, or in this case track the revenues