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.

      • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world
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        2 months 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.

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          2 months 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 :/

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            2 months 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