[pyre]

One of the big issues is that as soon as you delve into content-censoring, then the law makes you liable for everything (from child abuse to libel). The law takes an all-or-nothing approach.

For example, think about what YouTube would be like if every video had to be manually vetted by a real person before it was uploaded.

That said, if someone points out illegal things happening on your site (e.g. the mother pointing out the photos of her 13-year-old daughter), and you still do nothing, that is an issue.

[jacquesm]

Easy workaround: don't censor anything but set up an automated tip generator to the authorities if certain keywords are present in the ad.

I had a file upload service for a while (files.ww.com) and in spite of the very clearly worded warning pedophiles would attempt to use the service and a couple of them (and their buddies) found themselves in more trouble than they ever wished they had. I still got sick of it though and shut the whole thing down but it worked just dandy as a honeypot. The guy at the Dutch vice squad that was my contact died, I'm full of respect for people that will step into this junk to combat it, that can't be easy on the senses. He was called in to deal with the case of a childcare center in Amsterdam where a bunch of sub-humans had been abusing children as young as 19 days old (I wish I was making that up) to make videos in order to sell online.

Disgusting doesn't begin to describe it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_sex_crimes_case

Please be warned that this is not a pleasant page to read.

[Bluestrike2]

I read an article a few years ago about some of the people who work to identify child pornography victims. One of the quotes stuck with me when one of the investigators talked about some of their worst cases where they've literally watched these children grow over the course of years through the images of them that's shared online. People talk about maintaining your distance, but I don't know if that's even possible in that kind of situation. The idea of going into work everyday, knowing that there's even the slightest possibility that you'll find new images of a child you haven't been able to identify or save for the bulk of their childhood, is a mental challenge I can't even begin to comprehend.

[DanBC]

They not only did nothing, they went to court to protect their ability to do nothing, and to keep running the ads, and to keep profiting off the kidnap and rape of children.