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Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Post by refulgentis »

morkalork wrote: post #65
refulgentis wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Submitter is Canadian and re: America, posted "I read recently that Patrimonialism is a good way of describing the current regime" about 10 months ago. Doesn't sound like paid DHS/ICE psyopper. Any reason to think it is? EDIT: Got the "you're posting too fast", so in reply to OP below: > Submitter's nationality has nothing to do with it nor does his post history. WTF Well, yes it does, its exculpatory evidence for a…

From the fine article itself: >Within hours, local Homeland Security agents had arrested the offender, who had been raping Lucy for six years.

The claim is that an article was submitted intentionally to manipulate public perception of DHS.

We can't relax the claim to "well, it says DHS found a pedo, so it's propaganda ipso facto, because DHS did something good": they specifically argue the submission was the propaganda, specifically because it'd be absurd to claim it was published as DHS propaganda. (it's an article by the BBC)

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Post by anonym29 »

c22 wrote: post #48
anonym29 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. I immediately broke off all contact with them as soon as I learned about it.

How did you learn about it?

Web search for the person's name and city turning up mugshots and a criminal record that included SA, among other violent crimes, after getting a weird vibe / uncomfortable gut feeling from them at a social gathering with a mutual friend.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Post by doodlebugging »

rootusrootus wrote: post #52
doodlebugging wrote: post #43

This is an old story about an old investigation. It is old news dredged up to try to win sympathy for DHS/ICE. It is propaganda resurrected to make DHS look useful. They cherry-picked a story that they knew would win public sympathy since no one wants a child molester to run free. Lets show a time when an agent solved a case for an excellent outcome. Pick a DHS/ICE story from this year and see what kind of dystopic s…

Propaganda made by the BBC to make DHS look good? You are awfully cynical.

>You are awfully cynical.

A cynic is simply a realist who has seen too much shit. I am a firm realist. I see the world as it is and hope that others will come along to help make it better but I don't naively hold my breath.

DHS needs a win in the public's eyes. BBC has the air of a trusted platform. It is no big stretch to make the connection that dredging up an old story about tracking down and capturing a pedo using an elite DHS unit would be a useful tool to win back some public support. You notice that there are no dates given in the article so the reader has no way to know that this went down years ago. It looks new and fresh.

Propaganda. I don't have to be gullible so I choose not to be.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Post by Gigachad »

1024core wrote: post #15
puttycat wrote: post #3

> They contacted Facebook, which at the time dominated the social media landscape, asking for help scouring uploaded family photos - to see if Lucy was in any of them. But Facebook, despite having facial recognition technology, said it "did not have the tools" to help. Willing to bet my life savings that they are able to do exactly this when the goal is to create shadow profiles or maximize some metric.

Facial recognition is very powerful these days. My friend took a photo of his kid at the top of Twin Peaks in SF, with the city in the background. Unfortunately, due to the angle, you could barely see the eyes and a portion of the nose of the kid. Android was still able to tag the kid. I feel like Facebook really dropped the ball here. It is obvious that Squire and colleagues are working for the Law Enforcement. If F…

Google photos has the advantage of a limited search space. Any photo you take is overwhelmingly likely to be one of the few faces already in the library. Not to say facebook couldn't solve the problem. But the ability of Google to do facial recognition with such poor inputs is that it's searching on 40~ faces rather than x billion faces.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Post by [deleted] »

amatecha wrote: post #63
rootusrootus wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Propaganda made by the BBC to make DHS look good? You are awfully cynical.

What better way to bolster your reputation than to get your buddies to prop you up with fluff pieces? Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

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Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Post by GaggiX »

blahaj wrote: post #2

You can do the same yourself here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse

There is only one location shown in the images, in the past there were several and much clearer, I cannot image how difficult it must be to find it if the europol cannot find it in 2026.

Old thread for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19469681

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Post by pgalvin »

morkalork wrote: post #65
refulgentis wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Submitter is Canadian and re: America, posted "I read recently that Patrimonialism is a good way of describing the current regime" about 10 months ago. Doesn't sound like paid DHS/ICE psyopper. Any reason to think it is? EDIT: Got the "you're posting too fast", so in reply to OP below: > Submitter's nationality has nothing to do with it nor does his post history. WTF Well, yes it does, its exculpatory evidence for a…

From the fine article itself: >Within hours, local Homeland Security agents had arrested the offender, who had been raping Lucy for six years.

Are you suggesting that the BBC, the world service arm of a British public broadcaster (that is editorially independent from the state and even the wider BBC), began spending five years filming a documentary across the US, Portugal, Brazil, and Russia, just so that they could secretly support a US government agency half a decade before it became embroiled in controversy?

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Post by theonething »

doodlebugging wrote: post #73
rootusrootus wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Propaganda made by the BBC to make DHS look good? You are awfully cynical.

>You are awfully cynical. A cynic is simply a realist who has seen too much shit. I am a firm realist. I see the world as it is and hope that others will come along to help make it better but I don't naively hold my breath. DHS needs a win in the public's eyes. BBC has the air of a trusted platform. It is no big stretch to make the connection that dredging up an old story about tracking down and capturing a pedo usin…

> the reader has no way to know that this went down years ago

Not so.

> Last summer Greg met Lucy, now in her 20s, for the first time. > Lucy (left), now an adult...

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Post by fwipsy »

Gigachad wrote: post #74
1024core wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facial recognition is very powerful these days. My friend took a photo of his kid at the top of Twin Peaks in SF, with the city in the background. Unfortunately, due to the angle, you could barely see the eyes and a portion of the nose of the kid. Android was still able to tag the kid. I feel like Facebook really dropped the ball here. It is obvious that Squire and colleagues are working for the Law Enforcement. If F…

Google photos has the advantage of a limited search space. Any photo you take is overwhelmingly likely to be one of the few faces already in the library. Not to say facebook couldn't solve the problem. But the ability of Google to do facial recognition with such poor inputs is that it's searching on 40~ faces rather than x billion faces.

Can confirm, have seen Google photos misidentify strangers. I'm sure better technology exists, but Google's system has weaknesses.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Post by eastbound »

Aurornis wrote: post #30

Am I reading this correctly that the address where they found the child was where her mother’s boyfriend was living? > "So we narrowed it down to [this] one address… and started the process of confirming who was living there through state records, driver's licence… information on schools," says Squire. > The team realised that in the household with Lucy was her mother's boyfriend - a convicted sex offender. There’s a…

> the strangest part about this story was that the child’s mother was dating a convicted sex offender

70.6% of beaten children are beaten at the mother’s custody. Most often it turns out the choice of companion of the mother is inappropriate. While many see that as blaming the mother and it is a huge taboo in our society, it is such a huge humanitarian problem that it’s worth educating women better over that specific problem, and taking sanctions if necessary.

70.8% in the case of death. Source: CDC 2001-2006 if I remember. Incoming: Many ad-hominem about the source, it’s a problem that never gets addressed.

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