Reblogged from Order of Truth:
As we have learned – especially over the past year – David Cameron will stoop to
incredible levels of depravity and manipulation to boost his public image.
In his latest propaganda exercise, Cameron is heralding the news that Google
and Microsoft are adding a few more key words to the ‘blocked’ lists of their
respective search engines and using photo recognition scripts to block potential
‘child abuse’ images from their search engine results as a “massive breakthrough
in cleaning up the internet.”
Cameron’s claims are totally out of proportion to the reality of child
pornography on the internet, and have been criticised by experts in the
field.
Those who indulge in their sick fantasies do not use Google or Bing to share
child pornography. The effect of blocking content on the two search engines
against the spread of such material is zero, and is nothing more than a step to
indirect censorship of the internet after the failure of the government’s
proposed Data Communications Bill.
Trying to fool the public in to thinking that the latest restrictions through
two of the major search engines is going to do anything to stop the suffering of
children at the hands of the perverted is both highly deceitful and an underhand
political strategy.
Speaking to the BBC, Jim
Gamble, former chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection
Centre (CEOP), said “I don’t think this will make any difference with regard to
protecting children from paedophiles. They don’t go on to Google to search for
images. They go on to the dark corners of the Internet on peer-to-peer
websites.”
Martyn Thomas, who chairs the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
IT Policy Panel, agreed. “There are better and more effective ways to protect
children,” he said. “The measures will help to protect young children from
accessing such material, but they will do little for the people sharing these
images which is being done through private peer-to-peer networks.”
In fact, both Google and Microsoft have worked on blocking child abuse (and
other undesirable) content for years – long before Cameron jumped on the
bandwagon to try and score positive political points with the public.
The distribution of child abuse content is not generally done using the
‘regular’ or ‘normal’ internet (email, web pages etc.), as most users know it.
It is distributed using private networks set up for peer-to-peer sharing or
through encrypted ‘tunnels’ which use internet connectivity to distribute
content through specialist software and networks – often referred to as the
‘darknet’ – away from public scrutiny.
After being criticised by leading experts, Cameron seemed to change tactics.
During an interview with BBC Radio 2, Cameron said that he was prepared to
instruct the intelligence services (namely GCHQ) to target the ‘darknet’. He
said “That expertise is going to be brought to bear to go after these revolting
people sharing these images on the dark net and making them available more
widely.”
A bit late Cameron! GCHQ and the NSA have already been targeting one
encrypted network to try and break into its systems and identify users.
In top secret documents disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden it was
revealed that the NSA and GCHQ have made repeated attempts to break into the Tor network and
identify users, with very limited success. In one leaked NSA presentation the
attempts to gain significant inroads into the Tor network were described “We
will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time.” It continues:
“With manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users,”
and says the agency has had “no success de-anonymizing a user in response” to a
specific request.
Ironically, the Tor network receives 60% of its funding from the US
government, primarily the State Department and the Department of Defence – which
houses the NSA.
It is relied upon by journalists, activists and campaigners in the US and
Europe as well as in China, Iran and Syria, to maintain the privacy of their
communications and avoid reprisals from government
Despite Tor’s importance to dissidents and human rights organizations,
however, the NSA and its UK counterpart GCHQ have devoted considerable efforts
to attacking the service.
So it would seem that GCHQ has already been heavily involved in trying to
break the anonymous networks Cameron now claims to be a potential target for the
intelligence services. Either he is behind the times or he is lying.
With government attempts to control the flow of information on the internet
failing in the face of significant opposition to the evolving police state,
Cameron has ‘latched on’ to child abuse as a lever to persuade the public to
accept more control – after all, who could argue against tracking down perverts
who abuse children?
Gaining control of the so-called ‘dark net’ would be a significant gain for
the government. They would be able to control the flow of any information which
criticised or attempted to expose government’s corrupt agenda and
wrongdoings.
In reality, those who use the networks for illegal activities make up a tiny
proportion of users. Although the extent of the mass surveillance programmes of
the NSA and GCHQ have come into the public arena recently, those who seek to
expose our governments have known for a long time that normal internet
communications have been monitored, and they have used and set up a alternative
routes for the distribution of sensitive and controversial material.
Many whistleblowers have used encrypted networks to communicate with the
press and distribute documents so they make their way into the public domain
without compromising their own safety or revealing their identities.
If Cameron is so concerned about child abuse, why has he not devoted more
resources to police investigations into known abuse cases? For example, the Elm
Guest house affair where well known politicians and other high profile figures
abused children from care homes.
As yet, there has not been one significant development where a living
political figure has been exposed in the public arena for their depraved
activities. Neither has a current member of Cameron’s cabinet been exposed as
being complicit in the cover up which followed the initial investigation.
All we have heard about in the mainstream media are arrests of ‘celebrities’
for potentially ‘historic’ low level acts during the 1960s and 1970s in the
witch hunt that followed the Saville case. We have heard nothing of the high
profile figures who are KNOWN to have been involved in the most depraved
activities – including the abuse of very young children and sadistic and
ritualistic torture. There is also strong suspicion that ‘those in high places’
have been involved in the deaths of hundreds of children to fulfil their
perverted needs.
Cameron doesn’t seem bothered that (at the very least) members of his own
cabinet have been complicit in protecting high-profile figures involved in child
abuse of the most disgusting kind. Neither does it seem of importance to him
that direct links between Thatcher’s close aides who are (were) known to have
been involved in child abuse and current Conservative party members be
investigated.
We must be highly suspicious of Cameron and his motives. The only thing he is
interested in (as most of the current government) is control and manipulation of
the public for his own motives and agenda, and those of his masters.
Cameron must be stupid to think the public are stupid and that he can
fool all of them all of the time. Unfortunately, he only needs the majority who
are unaware of the reality of his agenda to believe him through his control of
the mainstream media and he has achieved his objective.
Cameron is constantly playing a game of smoke and
mirrors.
