The dark web, a section of the internet that can only be accessed via a Tor browser,
is designed to protect users' tracks online and obscure digital footprints.
Jeroen Jumelet / EPA-EFE
Posted on 10/16/2019 3:46:00 PM PDT by Perseverando
The dark web, a section of the internet that can only be accessed via a Tor browser,
is designed to protect users' tracks online and obscure digital footprints.
Jeroen Jumelet / EPA-EFE
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have filed multiple charges against a 23-year-old South Korean man accused of running what they call the world's "largest dark web child porn marketplace."
The now-shuttered English-language site, called "Welcome to Video," contained more than 200,000 unique videos or almost 8 terabytes of data showing sex acts involving children, toddlers and infants, according to the 18-page criminal indictment unsealed here Wednesday, and processed 7,300 Bitcoin transactions worth more than $730,000.
According to prosecutors, the vast online store was run by Jong Woo Son, a South Korean citizen currently serving an 18-month prison sentence in his home country after his conviction on charges related to child pornography. The site operated from June 2015 until it was seized and shut down by U.S. authorities in March 2018.
At a press conference Wednesday morning, U.S. officials said 337 suspected users of the site had been arrested worldwide to date.
"You may try to hide behind technology," U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu said, "but we will find you and arrest you and prosecute you."
Almost half of the videos seized were not previously known to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Downing said. "There are many children depicted in these videos that have not been identified."
"The scale of this crime is eye-popping and sickening," John D. Fort, chief of IRS criminal investigations, said.
The site allegedly rewarded its members with "points" in relation to the amount of illegal material they uploaded, authorities announced Wednesday.
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200k videos. There is no part in the ocean deep enough.
Not a duplicate, but the article by ransomnote has a lot more details on U.S. prosecutions. My article was from NBC News.
I beg to disagree there, my FRiend. Jim Rob would never ban anyone from naming anyone trying to normalize this EVIL perpetrated against children.
“processed 7,300 Bitcoin transactions worth more than $730,000.’
Bitcoin not so untraceable?
“and people are trying to ‘ normalized ‘ it.”
That was predicted years ago and it’s coming true.
They should be hung.
you might think me sick but after the left makes it’s best efforts on normalizing this - what’s next?
Sex with animals. Already there are organized groups advocating this.
Once homosexuality was deemed ‘ born that way ‘ any and all behaviors and deviancy are covered by the same claim.
Actually, I hope they spend a very short time in prison, having been attacked and killed by prison inmates once they find out what they did. Pedophiles are the lowest of the low in prisons, and usually don't survive.
Exactly.
This is low hanging fruit to generate headlines and for people to treat the FBI like heroes. But most of these people they go after are nobodies. The rich and powerful never get caught with this stuff.
Just like the show “Cops” on TV. These cops think they are are all big and bad with assault rifles doing prostitution stings in the poor part of town busting all these people who will be released again in a few hours. Meanwhile the rich are in their hotel rooms with their high priced escorts and no one touches them.
Unrepentent pedophiles will not like their eternal destiny. Matthew 18:6
It will be much worse than that. See Post 30
Ark of Hope for Children estimate 300,000 children in pedophile rings in the US.
Let’s ask John Podesta about this.
Makes you wonder if they keep taking down these massive terabyte-sized sites with stuff even the investigators do not know about, then are we even remotely winning?
They get this one, then another will replace it.
Send him to the North. Kim has creative ways of executing people.
Any accounts labeled clinton or biden etc?
8 TERRABYTES??? Hang him!
Then they should just.......disappear......
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