Are people who go on sites like 4chan to post other pictures but are inadvertantly exposed to cp at risk of getting arrested?

It doesn't seem fair that someone on a public message board should be responsible for a file they didn't post or even save to their hard drive.

Man, that is messed up. What's worse is that is the dilemma of what to actually do about it. Removing the predators' accounts is a no-brainer, of course. But what do you do with the children's videos that are already up?

For now, these children aren't quite victims: their actions were voluntary and they have no idea that they have been victimised. Left alone, they'll likely suffer no mental harm. What they don't know can't hurt them.

But if you start taking down their videos, you can be damn well sure they're going to find out why. That's when the potential for actual suffering hits.

So you're stuck with two bad options - leave the videos up with their mostly-unrealised abuse, but incentivise more nonces to get involved, or bring down the videos and guarantee that more kids are going to find out some creep have been wanking to them.

The fact that the converse is true actually seems more concerning to me.

The researchers also found the reverse is true: people who are exploited in their job are more likely to be seen as passionate about their work. Participants read about a Ph.D. student’s working relationship with their graduate advisor. Those who read a scenario in which the student was being exploited – verbally abused and given unreasonable deadlines – rated the student as likely to be more passionate than students who weren’t being exploited.

If we go about our lives assuming exploited people must just love their jobs, we open the door for allowing all kinds of exploitation to go unchecked.