We ALL know what should happen to pedophiles. Everyday they brag about their pedophilia to our face.
WE ALL KNOW AHY SHOULD HAPPEN TO PEDOPHILES.
EVEN CRIMINALS KNOW WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN TO PEDOPHILES
As bad as this guy is (literally just one of THE worst guys), I can never get over how his wife is a pediatrician and they have three daughters and she’s just along for the ride? The damage that family does to millions of children, and especially girls, through their direct action and inaction is astonishing.
The Epstein class supports kiddy porn for profit? Shocked! I tell you shocked!
Libertarian types, which the right is part of, see CSAM as just “recordings of crimes”, so they likely do it intentionally, to slowly change the general public’s view on the matter.
I mean I can be libertarian and see that legal definition holding water while also thinking that’s fucked up to want to see naked kids. Loli bait or otherwise is a problem and people should be shamed when they make, buy, or engage with it.
You know how in the movie Idiocracy they used " 'baitin" as a shock factor, and had all the woman characters be demeaned and sexualized?
Somehow, this is a lot worse.
This country hates its children. And all vulnerable people. We continually treat them as disposable, exploitable resources instead of people deserving of protection and care.
Today’s kids regularly have to rehearse finding cover from a hail of bullets at school, try to prepare themselves for an unlivable ecology, and wonder if any random picture of them will instantly be turned into porn via the new basis of our country’s economy. Capitalism is going great.
We always have treated our children as disposable. It was difficult even to prohibit factory child labor, which faced serious resistance from the courts. Some states are even reversing that. (Agricultural child labor is still legal.)
I good deep dive is the You’re Wrong About on Juvenile Justice (here on YouTube.)
TL:DR we have a whole subset of crime for kids, delinquency which is stuff that’s a crime for kids to do, but not adults. And delinquency crimes are totally used as a pipeline to get kids into the prison industrial complex.
Also, our public education system has always had containment as a priority. When kids are not working but their parents are, they get into mischief, and thus we needed somewhere to cage them. This, and not edification, is why school is mandatory.
Children have fewer rights than adults do, and the law enforcement and the justice system takes full advantage of that to exploit kids.
This is the United States of America.
I think they just hate, nothing is protected even what they claim.
This is definitely the kind of ai Trump would use if he was able to use a computer. He should ask his sons to teach him how to use it, they are so good with technology.
There’s a nonzero chance oligarchs are pushing this to normalize pedophilla.
Like how Ghislane Maxwell was super involved in early reddit and their main draw for a long time was “legal” sexualization of children.
Especially since it’s a common accusation they make against “the left”. Most of the time when they accuse, it’s a confession.
pushing this to normalize pedophilla.
They don’t really need to manufacture how normalized pedophilia is in our society. They’re simply capitalizing on it.
Might already be capitalizing on it with the international sex trafficking of children. Surprised most people don’t know about shit pop or you call it hip hop.
Wtf does that have to do with the price of eggs in China
Ok I was unaware of the Maxwell involvement
Abolish Facebook
Surprise! Nazis do not only exploit the marginalized, but also find and exploit weaknesses is ordinary people.
People are reading into this way too hard. This seems like an ad attack which is nothing new on Facebook. As you can target by user preference using: “oh this person from your feed but now naked” to bait a click is classic personalized ad attack. Facebook ads platform needs to be abolished altogether - it’s incredibly unsafe.
Very deceiving article title by arstechnica, disappointing.
I don‘t want to live on this planet anymore.
That’s where the money is.
I don’t think it’s just a small amount of men who like preteens and teenagers. I would wager it’s most men. We’ve been imprisoning them for owning CP for decades now, yet the market is not shrinking. Various sources report CSAM is “exploding”…there’s been an increase of something like 70% of these websites in the past few years.
CP with younger kids is also growing. Hundreds of thousands of websites host this material in USA, not even counting dark web (and that’s just in the USA, only 20% of these sites are in USA).
How big is the market with those kind of numbers? I’m too stupid to figure it out, but I’d imagine that means many millions of men, tens of millions? It staggers the mind.
The internet has been fantastic in many ways, but it’s revealed what many men are like in private, and it’s a very ugly revelation.
First of all, pedophilia is not exclusive to any gender. I think you need to examine your hateful biases.
Do you honestly believe that billions of people are paedophiles?
The Satanic Panic was largely about the US public learning (and being aghast) that CSA is epidemic in the US. At the time, one in three women surveyed were sexually abused as kids. (There are several good deep dives on the Satanic Panic. I recommend the webcast series by Sarah Marshall.)
At the time, we just couldn’t handle the notion that CSA was being done by people the kids knew (parents, neighbors, friends, teachers, ministers and so on), so we made up the mythology of Satanic Ritual Abuse, that there were these vast rings of Satanists (not the TST kind or the LaVey kind) who were diddling kids as a way to worship the Christian devil, and gain magical power. Americans were not prepared to acknowledge that the abusers were among themselves, and so they bought into the story.
Now there are CSA rings that exist, and the Epstein child trafficking ring is among them, but it’s a smaller circle. The thing about being high enough in the ownership class is that legality (or morality) no longer is a barrier to getting stuff you want. And so there’s a preponderance of drug use, of sex tourism, of sending gay kids to conversion therapy (or troubled teens to abduction/reformation camps). And so there are industries to facilitate these needs, because the demand is there and they have money to spend.
Moreover, the global system of capitalism depends on contrived desperation. Workers who are skipping meals are more eager to take on jobs that pay meagerly and are dangerous and arduous. When food, shelter, healthcare, etc. is a right, suddenly workers cost a premium. The same thing applies to sex trafficking. After the collapse of the USSR, girls from those countries were glad to put up and put out if it meant a reliable meal ticket. Single-digit kids were on the streets peddling sexual favors for lunch money. This was a font Epstein tapped for his service staff. The more desperate the girls were, the less grooming they required.
Hopefully, this is the moment we figure it out, that as long as we have an owner class, we’re going to have systems of contrived desperation to drive bonded servitude, including child trafficking. Especially if the owner class is exponentially more wealthy than the worker class. Maybe this is the moment we are able to collectively develop class consciousness, since it directly serves to protect our children.
Many, yes. A plurality, probably. I don’t know that it’s most, but given the widespread abandon of anything resembling ethics of any kind in modern society, I think the situation is a lot worse than anyone wants to admit. Contrary to the Christian pearl clutchers, I don’t think the moral decay has anything to do with religion, but there has been a moral decay, the call is just coming from inside the house more often than it is from outside.
Is also not exclusive to men.
No, but it is more predominantly male. There’s still certain natural and social consequences that keep some people from going full nihilistic hedonist. The collapse of manners, mores, social boundaries, dignity, and basic values is troubling but reality still has a way of making crossing certain boundaries dangerous and expensive for some people.
