How children's photos from Insta still end up on illegal darknet forums
“To see the picture on the darknet when the child had to satisfy the father, and the mother just stands next to it. That almost broke my heart…” explains Andrea in an interview with me on the phone. She tells her story about the horrific images she saw on the darknet, a computer network with restricted access that is used mainly for illegal peer-to-peer file sharing. It were these horrific pictures that made Andrea take initiative, herself. Andrea is not her real name. She doesn’t want to disclose her real name. No one should know what she does. It also has legal reasons. With what she does, chasing those who share those horrible children's photos, she perpetrates a crime. Andrea’s passion is to take down children’s pictures, and to chase those who steal them from Instagram influencers and share images on the darkweb. Most of these pictures end up on Darknet pedo forums, she says. Most of the time they are from Facebook or Instagram, she says. Open profiles. Innocent. Andrea has a child herself. It is romping in the background as Andrea and I speak on the phone. She wants her little girl and all other children to be protected from pedos who roam the web online, she says.
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