IT IS important for us to explain to readers, even if at the expense of an offender's privacy, what happened years prior to the Epstein-Gates scandals. Microsoft already had an appalling reputation when it comes to mishandling pedophilia (there's lots of information about that around the Web), as people often told us -- people associated with groups that combat crimes against children. As recently as two years years ago Bing was accused of disseminating child pornography and even nudging searchers in that direction. There's also the issue of lack of oversight (e.g. people soliciting sex with children in online chats controlled by Microsoft).
Some key parts from the first installment from Seattle's Police Department: