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Yahoo pulls the plug on fake profiles used by British police

It's hard to fault Yahoo! in this case.

““INTERNET companies including Yahoo! are hindering police investigations into child abuse by closing down the undercover identities used by officers to trap paedophiles.

British child protection police habitually pose as children online, using false profiles to ensnare abusers trying to groom girls and boys for sex.

But the companies say they will shut down all bogus identities on their sites even if they know they are being run to catch paedophiles.

“Everybody using our service, regardless of whether they are law enforcement agencies, has to abide by our terms of service and if they don’t we will close them down,” said Yahoo!.

Its terms of service state that all information used to make up a profile must be “true, accurate current and complete”.

The stipulations are intended to protect users from exploitation and abuse, but antiabuse campaigners say they are frustrating police sting operations on hardcore offenders.””

Why should police have special privileges not available to the general public? Why should a private company overlook abuses of services just because it is government agents?

Yes, I know it is that old saw about "protecting the children," but without that justification, doesn't Yahoo! owe it's customers protection from frauds online?

Posted: Sun - May 20, 2007 at 02:31 PM

Tags: clipping ∙ Yahoo! ∙ Britain ∙ police ∙ children ∙ pedophile ∙ paedophile ∙ identity fraud ∙ government ∙ agents ∙ protect the children

❝❝The classes teaching socialist and Marxist ideology aren't labeled as such. They are in fact part of the general education requirement. That wouldn't be so bad, except those classes are the only ones allowed. No one is allowed to dissent from the orthodoxy.

Once upon a time, university meant debating things that you disagreed with or that made you uncomfortable. You learned to think and defend your reasoning even if the words and thoughts you faced offended you.

Now, we have safe spaces to protect overgrown children from triggering because they shouldn't have to face something that actually makes them think and grow.

Education should not be pre-chewed. Education should be hard. Education should challenge you to be something more than you are right now. Education should be about understanding what you oppose. Education should be about finding what works.❞❞

— NeoWayland, comments from De-toxify America by pulling federal funds out of higher education

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❝❝You see, I've done this before. When True Believer Christians told me I was damned and a mortal threat to their children. When conservatives told me that only one way could save the country and anything else threatened their children. When progressives told me that capitalism and individualism were dead and should stay that way for the sake of the children. When well-fed third wave feminists in designer clothes told me about how they were oppressed by the patriarchy and wouldn't have children. When pagans lectured me on the evils of monotheism and how love would save the world. Always, always, ALWAYS the pattern is exactly the same. In the absence of understanding, triviality dominates. The enlightened demand sacrifice from everyone else. "For the children" is for those living and in charge. Anyone who offers an absolute won't brook dissent. Experts are uniquely qualified to fuck the situation up beyond any hope of repair. Government is not your friend.

So you have a chance here to change your behavior, change your pattern and accept responsibility. Your choice.❞❞

— NeoWayland, from the comments of The Climate Change Watermelon Juggernaut & The Prescience Of Michael Crichton

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Tags: maxims ∙ religion ∙ children ∙ demonic realms ∙ faith

““Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.””
     — Camille Paglia

Tags: Camille Paglia ∙ men ∙ memes ∙ sacrifice ∙ cripple ∙ feed ∙ house ∙ protect ∙ women ∙ children ∙ pain ∙ achievement ∙ feminist ∙ rhetoric ∙ oppressive ∙ callous ∙ exploiters

❝❝Madam, you don't know what rape culture is!

What's more, you demean the experiences of women and children who do suffer living under rape cultures by comparing yourself and your experiences to them.

You're not helping them, all you are doing is guilting people into giving more privilege.

Please, if you do nothing else, stop exploiting their experiences for your agenda.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ rape culture ∙ women ∙ children ∙ privilege ∙ exploit ∙ agenda

““Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.””
     — C.S. Lewis

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“As kids, they picked cotton and dreamed about the 'mansion' across the road. Now they own it.”

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““You can't childproof the world. You can only worldproof your children.””
     — probably L. Neil Smith, The American Zone

Tags: L. Neil Smith ∙ children ∙ childproof ∙ World ∙ worldproof

You didn't think they were serious, did you?

Tags: politicos ∙ left-wing ∙ right-wing ∙ children ∙ fighting poverty ∙ family values ∙ fighting drugs ∙ goverment ∙ bigger ∙ Harry Browne

❝❝Children need strong male and female influences in their life.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

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