I see a guy looking at illegal sites in a web cafe; what should I do?

[guids]

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I doubt cops do much. No possession and a million excuses. If you tell shop owners maybe they bar him so he goes somewhere else. You're not going to fix the world by yourself.

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I think you are wrong, I think a lot of cops do something about it.

[pergesu]

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I doubt cops do much. No possession and a million excuses. If you tell shop owners maybe they bar him so he goes somewhere else. You're not going to fix the world by yourself.

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I think you are wrong, I think a lot of cops do something about it.

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like make his head bleed

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

C- Jim

[BradleyT]

He could have easily went to a circle jerk site (a site where all thumbnails and links just send you to yet another site with no content) and was just getting shifted around various "illegal" sites.

Edit to add wikipedia text


Circle Jerk(CJ) TGP and other deceptive practices
These sites look like TGP sites but end up sending users on a 'circle jerk' of blind links, in order to trap the surfer. When users click on a gallery link provided by a TGP, they will be unwillingly redirected to another TGP instead. Many legitimate TGPs do this to some extent, either by having some links redirect to other TGPs or by having all links do so a certain percentage of the time. CJ TGPs almost never have any real content. The method of earnings for these sites are selling large volumes of traffic, non-adult sponsors (who sell virus protection, adware scanning, privacy protection, web history cleaning software) and adult sponsors. Many CJs attempt to trap the hapless viewer by resizing the browser window, opening new windows, installing spyware, adware or dialers (for instance by having the user download a trojan horse fake codec such as Trojan.Emcodec.E or exploiting browser bugs), changing the home page and adding bookmarks. It is therefore advisable to visit these sites only when Java, ActiveX and JavaScript as well as other scripting languages have been disabled in the browser and the system is fully patched. Users who are infected with PUPs, and other malicious software usually end up with a variety of issues like modified host files, endless popup ads (originating from the user's own computer) browser redirects, etc...

TGPs that employ a high level of skimming or other deceptive practices will often contain thumbnails of higher quality and will even sometimes include images with bestiality, underage models and other extreme and illegal types of pornography.

[luckyjimm]

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He could have easily went to a circle jerk site (a site where all thumbnails and links just send you to yet another site with no content) and was just getting shifted around various "illegal" sites.

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Since he was looking at the outside of sites, I told myself he wasn't funding it / wasn't responsible for the production of these pictures / wasn't directly causing abuse. Though of course he could well do that in future.

I wonder if I had seen him on a webcam with a minor would I have been more likely to intervene - I'm sure in that case I would.

[Shoe]

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If he took this risk once, he will keep on doing it, and he will get caught.


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Not if everyone who sees him do it is a coward like you

[so sick bro]

you're a [censored] pussy dude, wow

[Howard Beale]

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I doubt cops do much. No possession and a million excuses. If you tell shop owners maybe they bar him so he goes somewhere else. You're not going to fix the world by yourself.

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I think you are wrong, I think a lot of cops do something about it.

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like make his head bleed

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'I didn't DO anything officers! This machine must have something wrong with it! I was trying to get to Yahoo to check my mail and it kept bringing up these sites! It must have a virus or the person before me accessed these sites. I would've asked for help but it was too embarrassing so I figured I'd just leave.'

Yeah, the cops are going to bring this to the DA.

[luckyjimm]

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I doubt cops do much. No possession and a million excuses. If you tell shop owners maybe they bar him so he goes somewhere else. You're not going to fix the world by yourself.

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I think you are wrong, I think a lot of cops do something about it.

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like make his head bleed

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'I didn't DO anything officers! This machine must have something wrong with it! I was trying to get to Yahoo to check my mail and it kept bringing up these sites! It must have a virus or the person before me accessed these sites. I would've asked for help but it was too embarrassing so I figured I'd just leave.'

Yeah, the cops are going to bring this to the DA.

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I could have used my cellphone camera; he had his back to me so wouldn't have seen....

[luckyjimm]

[censored] what a lousy thousandth post...