More than 70 million warnings sent to people searching for child sexual abuse content

I got sent one looking for the Baby Merchant song from Cop Rock.  It is really easy to search for a suss collection of words inadvertently, and trigger the system. Lol. 

"By placing more warnings across more online spaces, we can disrupt harmful behaviour at the moment it's happening and prevent countless children from being harmed.” Unfortunately I don’t think a warning label is going to deter these sick people.

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I wonder how many of these searches are from legitimate researchers etc? Or is that 70m unique users, not for research & Investigative purposes? Big numbers regardless though. Bloody hell.

Not sure if this was a warning, but i remember a stern message when I was using Google doctor for my 1 year old. Upon reflection, my keywords could have been interpreted horribly.

there’s a yamaha keyboard i want to buy called the “yamaha cp reface”. so i typed “cp reface” into facebook marketplace the other day, and it takes me to another page telling me off for searching child p***. i was so confused, like, what? i want a piano, not to be a creep. so i searched it again, same result. took me too long to realize the model name having “cp” in it was the reason why. pretty sure it actually stands for “classic piano”.

My town has the initials C-P and I lot of businesses use those initials, so uh, there’s that

I’m skeptical of the recent conservative-backed push to “protect kids online.” I don’t believe the problem is as severe or pervasive as we’re being told it is. We’re being told that this shit is so prevalent that we should all be tripping over it every time we use the Internet, but has anyone actually unintentionally come across this content themselves, and who would admit they have? 70 million warnings, worldwide, is about what I’d expect from a world of 6 billion people using the Internet (about 1/4 of the world population does not). And that’s liberally assessing that the warnings were for unique users, not unique warnings generated among a much smaller group of people. It’s a lot, but we are we tracking warnings for people asking about other horrible things? We can all (hopefully) agree that CSAM and those who seek it out should be dealt with accordingly, but I think the issue is being leveraged as a means to another end. The real motive of these people is to ban p********** outright, which I will never support. They are pushing a moral agenda on the rest of us, and it’s easy to move people in the direction of a total and complete ban on p********** if you can misrepresent the problem of CSAM on the Internet. If they are successful, we’ll lose more than free access to p*** as their agenda develops further.

I know of 77 million people who voted for the best friend of an underage sex trafficker…

I got a warning when I tried to recall Homer Simpson's line about the comic "Love is". I searched for "two naked eight year olds who are married". Oops.

While I do think that this is a good measure and, without a doubt, there are millions upon millions of possible predators out there, I would take this info with a grain of salt. Like some other people already mentioned in here, lots of ordinary people get these messages aswell when using Google and using certain blacklisted words? I've got such a warning myself when trying to remember an anime name, and I searched using keywords like "warrior woman taking in child prince". I was looking for Seirei no Moribito, which I had watched years ago but forgot the name. And my reaction was "wtf did I do?". But I guess it's better to give those warnings to too many people than not enough.

Like others asked, I wonder how many were from more benign searches. Or even p*** related, but legal p***. I remember a few years ago trying to look up this one cam model by her screen name that had "baby" in it. Google gave me a stern warning. Not that there isn't a problem with this type of content being far more easily accessible these days. Or how many abusers there are out there. There's far too many.

The number itself is horrifying but honestly one of the scariest parts is realising how industrialised this problem has become online. People still imagine this stuff hiding in obscure corners of the internet when in reality tech companies are having to intercept searches at massive scale across mainstream platforms. The internet made it infinitely easier for predators to find content, communities and reinforcement from other offenders instead of remaining isolated.

70 million is an insane number wtf

"From the tens of millions of alerts, just under 700,000 people followed links to further support" Honestly way **way** more people than I would've thought. I would've guessed closer to 700 than 700k. So these warnings are definitely doing a lot of good.

I worked with a sex offender in prison that once told me "how can I be a sex offender if I've never had sex". He was so twisted and even his family enabled him.

How many were from trying to view the Epstein files?

I'm surprised this hasn't already been implemented widely across the web. I remember recalling a p*** site (I think it was X*******) that started blocking searches for CSAM topics a decade ago, warning their users that what they're searching for is illegal and directing them to get help. But also, I don't think mere warnings are effective. Just look at how many smokers were deterred by all the graphic warnings posted on cigarette and rolling tobacco packets.

but no consequences when they vote one of their fellow perverts into the white house...hmmph

I triggered it by looking up the Kung fury panda 2 meme of, "Child po rn looks so cute." Or any combination of, "Child po."

Could this also be Ai scraping the net for everything? Probably unlikely, very worrying.

I remember when i was first watching anime and someone mentioned lolis...naive me had no clue amd googled that, got a warning as well lmao

As a lifetime wargamer, I was very upset to learn what else CP stands for.

Divorce lawyers crying tears of joy.

Yeah, once got asked by a user why a supplier's website was blocked - [https://pulledmeats.co.uk/](https://pulledmeats.co.uk/) Don't believe these numbers mean what they think they mean

You can literally pullup a random hashtag on twitter and get CP its fucked how easy it can be

Anyone check trumps blackberry?

There’s more of this shit in the clear net than the dark net unfortunately

Good. Also, wtf? Crazy that it happens so often

I for one am very happy that groups are working with tech platforms to address this problem in a science-backed way, together with potential help for p*** addicts.  Very positive!!

Were they looking up a certain president’s background?

Holy F****** Shit! That’s a lot, way too many demented people on this planet

I got one for trying to generate an AI picture of a troll from the LoTR movie. No, not naked or anything. The art generator had a full on freak out. It actually produced an image of a naked underage girl, totally unprompted, when I was trying to make a satyrical picture. (Trump smoking a bong with the Devil, and asking him how Epstien was). It obviously had data on who Epstein was and why this might appear in that context. Creepy.

Why warnings and not police?

F*** a warning! Send them to the Gulag!