Since someone brought them up, and seem curious as to why they talk a lot of nonsense, it's worth mentioning the IWF has a lot of cops in it. Hell, the comms director who likes to write a lot of shrill nonsense used to work for the police.

Reminder that the police is currently run by a very conservative British party probably making them even worse than they usually are. Also, I don't think the IWF actually operates legally, they have an "agreement" with the police that they won't prosecute them, so long as they operate within "certain parameters". There is plenty of incentive here then to "get on their good side".

The rest of it can be chalked up to virtue signalling, fund raising (it has a lot in similar to a protection racket), and well, an org like this is bound to involve a certain number of crazy people who are fairly obsessive.

Also, analysing their rhetoric, they became more shrill around 2019 (the year when they lied about the number of child porn images, then quietly backed down on it by blaming most of it on false reports from the public, is anyone stupid enough to buy this excuse? more recently, they appear to have conflated *spam links to sites which may contain images* with *images*), when previously they used less heated language.

They're very activist and it would be extremely foolhardy to take anything they say at face value.