Hello, I am looking for some advice on setting up what could be classed as a controversial web site! I work in Cambodia and this country has a massive problem with pedophiles with the government doing little and just a few NGO's trying what they can to tackle this problem. I wish to setup a website where good tourists can upload photos of these dirty old men who walk around with underage girls hand in hand. Basically i want a site that is there to embarrass / shame these people (who probably have a wife and kids back home)! So my questions are: 1 how can i setup a website anonymously so theres no link back to me directly! 2 can i legally let others upload photos of people on my site without that persons permission (although i guess people photos are uploaded everyday on websites) 3 can the site be shut down? 4 i am not looking at making money from this site it would be Not For Profit! 5 anything else ive not thought of? please help advise if you can. Regards
I think it's a bad idea - while your cause is good, you could ruin innocent people's lives should someone upload a picture of someone they dislike. You'll never be truly anonymous - but you could purchase a domain with privacy, so that your information isn't presented to the world. I don't know what the laws are like in Cambodia, but for most of North America and Europe, you can use an image provided the user submitting the image owns the copyright. If the image was taken in a public space like a road and is taken from afar, then I believe it's ok. But if the image is taken in a private area like a restaurant or hotel, you might require a model release - which obviously you're not going to get. Yes - the images could be considered defamation and you could be sued. Also, there might be local laws that prohibit you from doing this (decency laws, child pedo laws depending on what's happening in the photo).
also don't forget that , simply holding a hand does not mean that the person is a pedophile , if that was the case every father that goes shopping with the kids could get pinned for being a pedophile you need evidence to back up your claim ,
I agree where your coming from, but i was hoping to aim this more at the bar girl areas the so called dodgy areas, and if i was to approve (view) the photos before they are published i would hope to be able to at least determine a bit of an idea if the photo is about right for the site. Also would a disclosure stating that if YOU are uploading a photo YOU are stating that this WAS taken in Cambodia and to the best of your knowledge this person was under the age of 18. Again emphasis on the person uploading the image, not the site. Its not the underage sex that we are trying to target here, its just the old western (usually white) men 60+ age going into bars and getting girls for a few days "Company" and most of these girls are under 18. We would not be showing any photos other than random men walking down streets with a girl 50+ years younger. Plus if we offer to remove any offending photos (with a reasonable explanation) clause.
me personally i wouldn;'t touch such a site with a barge pole , leaves you wide open for defamation of character law suites does't matter who uploads the picture , but as you are the publisher you can be held liable also , it's not illegal to walk down the street with an under age person , sure everyone know what is going on but without hard evidence you can't say that this guy is going to go screw an underage girl/boy , the person could say i was merely helping them find their parents , or taking them to an orphanage
This IS a great idea, as it could potentially serve as a great deterrent. However, I think as it stands that people tend to share things online, and there might already be images on facebook / youtube etc that you dont know about. But starting a site specifically for this, is possibly not a good idea. You could possibly use a proxy, and i dunno, use that proxy to join a vpn etc, to access the site to set it up. You could probly host it on free hosting sites, AND OR host with sites that accept bitcoin payments as that is anonomyous... But odds are that the site wont be hosted for long, and if they really wanted to find you that they will. If you do this anyway, then I would say that you should not allow for users to upload themselves, and blurring the face of the girls would be essential. Starting the site though is a small task to actually promoting it. If this is your first site, odds are it could be years before the people that you want to see the content will actually start to see it, (and as soon as it starts causing waves, its a strong possibility that the site will be shut down) BIFTEK is right. Simply someone holding someones hand does not constitute a crime -> no its not acceptable but neither does it count as an instant crime. You could have some people getting blamed for something that is genuinely innocent (no i cant think of any plausible excuses). I think it would be better to be at the brothels taking photos and handing this in to the police, which could be the best way of having something done properly there and then. I do like the idea putting it online if it can work as a way to deter people from even going to cambodia, but I really think that legally that this sort of site will cause you more problems then it solves, so you just cant do it. Our TV news shows have done features on cambodia and they made it clear that the problem was more to do with locals rather then foreigners (like seriously, the only white people there in the bad area was the do-gooder reporter), and you just cant tell the difference between someones father, a cop and a rapist (and from what I have heard, at times there is no difference)
Your website sounds like it would turn into a free-for-all for defamation. The fact that you want to remain anonymous suggests that you know you could be doing something which violates an innocent person's legal rights and you don't want them to be able to find out that it's you who's doing it.