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Bitcoin Horrow Show

 

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COMMENT: We’ve done sev­er­al shows about Bitcoin–apparently con­ceived by peo­ple from Siemens spin-off Lan­tiq, which was cap­i­tal­ized by Gold­en Gate Cap­i­tal (formed by alum­ni of Bain Capital–Mitt Romeny’s firm.) Those pro­grams are: FTR #‘s 760 [2], 764 [3], 770 [4], 785 [5].

Deriv­a­tive of the fas­cist doc­trine stem­ming from the Aus­tri­an school of eco­nom­ic the­o­ry, Bit­coin is inex­tri­ca­bly linked with the milieu of Edward Show­den and the lib­er­tar­i­an wing of the GOP.

A horrifying–though predictable–story from the Dai­ly Mail illus­trates the moral, prac­ti­cal and philo­soph­i­cal bank­rupt­cy of lib­er­tar­i­an phi­los­o­phy. (A tip of the hat to “Par­ticipo” for this sto­ry.)

Kid­die porn freaks (with an appar­ent sadis­tic bent) have been using Bit­coin to finance online videos with the chil­dren being tor­tured with lit cig­a­rettes.

Aside from the poten­tial for such activ­i­ty to be uti­lized by orga­nized crime syn­di­cates and intel­li­gence ser­vices for a vari­ety of pur­pos­es, this will  cer­tain­ly obvi­ate the need for rig­or­ous sur­veil­lance of the inter­net.

We here a great deal about “free­dom” these days, par­tic­u­lar­ly in con­nec­tion with the inter­net.

Real free­dom, how­ev­er, can only exist when mar­ried to respon­si­bil­i­ty. The prop­a­ga­tion of activ­i­ties such as the one described in the sto­ry below under­scores the deprav­i­ty of many of those who argue for an unmon­i­tored inter­net, on which “any­thing goes.”

 “Dis­turb­ing New Inter­net Child Abuse Sees Tod­dlers Raped and Burned Live on Web­cam as Pae­dophiles use Bit­coin to Stop Being Traced, Warns Police Chief” by Kier­an Cor­co­ran; Dai­ly Mail; 4/21/2014. [6]

One of Europe’s top police offi­cers has warned of a sick­en­ing online trade in child tor­ture porn.

Rob Wain­wright, the direc­tor of Europol, said offend­ers are using the untrace­able online cur­rency Bit­coin to pay for depraved ‘shows’, per­formed live on web­cams, which see young chil­dren raped and burned.

He said: ‘The lev­el of deprav­ity seems to be descend­ing year on year, frankly, includ­ing what seems to be in vogue now, which is live web­cam ‘shows’ of tod­dlers not just being raped but being burnt with cig­a­rettes.

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Sick­en­ing: Mark Wain­wright warned that online preda­tors were pay­ing to watch chil­dren be raped and burned live on web­cam

‘Sor­ry, but it’s hap­pen­ing online and it’s extreme­ly dif­fi­cult for us to iden­ti­fy.’

Mr Wain­wright warned that Bit­coin — a ‘cryp­to-cur­ren­cy’ based on math­e­mat­i­cal for­mu­lae and inde­pen­dent of any gov­ern­ment or cen­tral bank — is prop­ping up a crim­i­nal black mar­ket.

He also warned that police and politi­cians were strug­gling to keep up with the pace of online crime, thanks to wide­spread anonymi­ty online, and easy access to encryp­tion tech­nol­ogy which can make crim­i­nals almost impos­si­ble to track down.

Mr Wain­wright warned that the prin­ci­ple that everyone’s online activ­ity should be anony­mous by default needs to be chal­lenged in order to police the inter­net effec­tive­ly.

(*fur­ther enhanc­ing the require­ment for a vir­tual panop­ti­con — par­ticipo)

He crit­i­cised the slug­gish response from the police, politi­cians and big busi­nesses, say­ing that equiv­a­lent lev­els of crime in the phys­i­cal world would be ‘front page news.’

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Black mar­ket: The Bit­coin cryp­tocur­rency is being used for ille­gal activ­i­ties, Mr Wain­wright warned

–Black mar­ket: The Bit­coin cryp­tocur­rency is being used for ille­gal activ­i­ties, Mr Wain­wright warned
He told The Times: ‘It is frus­trat­ing that we are not get­ting the mes­sage out, at least not loud enough for leg­is­la­tors to hear it.’

The Inter­net Watch Foun­da­tion pres­sure group has recent­ly claimed to have found evi­dence of an email scam direct­ing peo­ple to under­ground web­sites where the sick ‘shows’ could be seen in exchange for Bit­coin.