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I’ve thought for a while now that one of the biggest problems we have regarding the internet is an epidemic of people being unaware of what constitutes “privacy” online. I mean, there are still people who are surprised they can be fired for calling their boss names on Facebook. Nobody seems to understand just what happens to the information they put into their computer and out onto the web, and what their rights are regarding that information.

Unless you are running your own servers, and maintaining your own website and email programs, you don’t have real privacy online. Mails between me and my friends are read by Google because I use Gmail; Amazon compiles and analyzes my every purchase, product rating, and review in an attempt to understand what makes me tick. Hell, even a lot of news sites and blogs anymore analyze my viewing history to find out exactly why I’ve come to their website, and what my motives are (great blog post about Answers In Genesis doing that here: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/another_reason_to_avoid_visiti.php#more) Even so-called “private chats” are really taking place between me, the person I’m chatting with, and a third-party server located who-knows-where and monitored by who-knows-who. And that’s not nefarious; that’s just how the internet works.

So for people to be openly trading child pornography via a website (especially one that has the disclaimer “Any illegal activity will be reported to local authorities)… that’s just asking to be arrested, in my opinion. To me, that’s like sitting in a Burger King and conversing where anyone can here you, “Hey man, I’ve got some kiddie-rape videos in my car, if you’re interested.” Would anybody be surprised if a cop that was having lunch overheard and arrested them, or if a manager called the police? No.

People need to learn that just because you’re sitting at home, alone, in the dark, typing on a computer… doesn’t mean that you’re alone on the interwebs. Oh, except for child-molestors: they need to be encouraged to post ads for their material as publicly and openly as possible. Maybe on their Facebook wall, or in an email to fbi.gov.

Sorry for the long rant.