----- Original Message ----- > From: "Livingood, Jason" <jason_living...@comcast.com>
> The challenge of course is that in the absence of a silver bullet solution, > that > people working to combat all forms of child exploitation are simultaneously > trying several things, ranging from going to the source as you suggest and > arresting people, to trying to interrupt the online tools that they may use or > that might fund/support them, etc. So they don’t approach it as a binary > choice between trying these ecosystem measures vs going to the source – they > are working all the levers. > > It is unfortunately a very difficult problem. FWIW, a recent NYT article on > this > was interesting – see > https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-abuse.html > Headline > is “The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went > Wrong? > Online predators create and share the illegal material, which is increasingly > cloaked by technology. Tech companies, the government and the authorities are > no match.” Ah yes; the "proxies for evil" problem. Same problem as "getting the guns" (to quote President Andrew Shepard) as a solution for mass shootings. (And note here that I'm a lefty; we're not *required* to be gun-negative paranoids.) Child molesters also make use of houses, vans, and phonecams, so lets get all of *those* off the streets, too. Tools are *inherently* neutral, regardless of how partisans on either side want to paint them; even lockpicks -- or haven't you had to call a locksmith to get you back into your car/house without breaking a window. Tools. Are. Neutral. Any solution to a problem that involves outlawing or breaking tools will. Not. Solve. Your. Problem. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
