I'm not talking about queer people getting called groomers. I know why that's happening. I'm referring more to a more general fear of pedophilia instead of just repackaged homophobia.
I feel like I'm hearing about it like every other week. For instance, parent bloggers noticing that their engagement skyrockets when they post their kids eating hotdogs or in swimwear. Another example is an increasing trend of people on Pinterest creating walls and albums labelled "hot kids."
I know that elite freaks are all pedos, but is pedophilia an actually growing problem among regular people? It seems to me like when suburbanites freak out about any other thing like BLM or immigrants marching through and razing their communities. Or the crime freakout in the 70s/80s.
Am I being naive and we actually need to be on high alert?
I don’t think you understand how organized pedophiles are. You can apply a lot of your intuitions about white supremacist organizations to pedophiles and it would be pretty accurate. Lots of dark money donations. Front websites that seem edgy but innocuous but their core usership is full of pedos who have dedicated back channels which control moderation (these tend to also be Nazi safe havens fwiw). TikTok is full of pedos and so is Discord. Not because these platforms are particularly bad, but because they are internet platforms and we have almost nothing in terms of established social norms for protecting kids online. Parents don’t understand the risks. Corporations wanna “offer parental controls” to essentially offload the responsibility onto parents who have no clue those half assed tools exist.
Children’s rights advocacy is difficult because children can be very difficult to organize without a centralizing commonality like abusive child labor to bring them together. But they are one of the most abused demographics in existence, systemically and interpersonally. I know a shit ton of people who were groomed online and have looked back on it like, “oh yeah I guess that’s what that was”
:what-the-hell: Can you elobarate a bit? This is the first time I'm hearing this.
It’s a reference to several sites like some of the chan boards and the one that got kicked off Cloudflare last year. Fascist leaders have a tendency to be arrested for CP and a lot of these sites have a fast-and-loose relationship with moderating CP. And of course, the crypto wallets that donate to these sites are huge. The amount of money that passes through them is well beyond what you would need to run a site like that, even at the scale they do. Imo the fascist organizing and the pedo organizing are very interlinked