What’s going on

Law enforcement believes that despite the British platform’s full efforts to combat child pornography and other violence against children, it may still be hiding the true amount of such material on its pages, and the way the service works prevents police from getting a more accurate picture of the situation.

It is extremely difficult to obtain content hosted behind OnlyFans paywalls.
– says Trey Amick, director of Magnet Forensics, a company that deals with forensic examination.

Matt Richardson, who investigates child exploitation for the Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative, agrees. “It’s really hard to know exactly what’s out there and how much,” he says.

A very rough statistic shows that in 30 cases where material was found to contain child sexual abuse, more than half resulted in an arrest and three in a criminal conviction.

According to a spokesperson for OnlyFans, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1984, has “full access.” The company also Knowingly providing police with most data, including content and private messages.

However, this only applies to accounts under active investigation. Other accounts that are not flagged will remain closed.

According to experts, this is an unsolvable problem. On the one hand, it is very important to protect children from exploitation. On the other hand, giving law enforcement officers complete freedom of action on a site where users pay for explicit content raises questions about privacy. It is not yet known whether police officers will use this access for purely professional purposes.

OnlyFans is proud of the work we do to aggressively detect, report, and support the investigation and prosecution of anyone attempting to abuse our platform.
– said the company representative.

He adds that unlike many other platforms, “the lack of end-to-end encryption on OnlyFans means messages can be used by law enforcement and prosecutors.”