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Not sure if I would classify Schulte as a "whistleblower" - the CIA is an espionage agency, and the stuff he leaked contains details on how the CIA performs electronic espionage, i.e. how it does its job. So AFAIK it's not as if he exposed some illegal activity on the CIA's side?
> it's not as if he exposed some illegal activity on the CIA's side? Lol. So you're saying their espionage is legal?
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> I think you'll find more pedophiles in the public school system than the home. Biological fathers have very low incidence rates of child molestation and households have limited numbers of people in them. At least in Germany, evidence proves otherwise - almost half the cases in Germany are made by fathers, ten percent mothers, and of the rest a lot of different other degrees of relatives [1]. Preventing sexual abuse…
I don't read German but I used biological fathers for a reason, does your data include stepfathers? I am familiar with studies like these[0] that indicates a child's lowest risk of abuse is in a household with both biological mother and father, lower even than biological mother alone. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11675811/ [0-2] https://www.center4research.org/child-abuse-father-figures-k...
It does, yes, but it doesn't matter. Abuse incidence from teachers and caretakers is ridiculously low, the utter majority of abuse comes from family members and so that is where efforts should be focused.
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It does sound like projection. Your link comes down to depiction of “a minor”. How does one prove an image is an 18 year old, even if they are, and not 1 day younger? It’s unquestionable for children but not so clear near the age of 18. I think that is the point of the poster, that it’s really not clear on all porn what age the people are. Even with disclaimers they could be lies.
Please be aware that some of us actually don't amass piles of erotica in our alone time, as if some sort of pornsick squirrel. The most reliable way of not getting caught out storing dodgy images on your computer is to not procure them in the first place. And, it's better for keeping a healthy and well-adjusted attitude towards sexual desire, rather than being trained on whatever pornographers want to you see. From a…
Holy cow did previous generations / civilizations love to collect lewd sculptures and paintings.
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>I'd probably ignore the child porn allegations - that's a common way to smear folks. 'Schulte referred to the child pornography he was accused of possessing as a "victimless crime"'. Yeah, I'm not sure why you'd defend yourself like that in such a situation.
It is a legitimate defense strategy - and one that actually has valid points, at least for stuff like anime "CSAM". IMO, societies should focus more on preventing the creation of real-life CSAM: - teach children from a young age in an appropriate way about sex including what the names of genitalia are, so that in a court examination you don't have to argue about what "down there" means, and consent. Children can only…
Ok, in some cases it's because the parents are religious or over controlling nutcases, but in many cases home schooling is the final choice of parents whose kid is not able to learn in the traditional school environment for many reasons.
I'd suggest that in most of these cases the parents would far prefer that their child attend traditional schooling so they can get on with their lives, but the payoff of calmer home life and a kid who is actually getting an education.
home school does not always equal nutcase parents. Thanks you, rant off.
why is the US just so casually and callously cruel with imprisonment? abusive use of solitary, terrible conditions in general, forcing people to work for essentially no money, putting people who are not dangerous in "super max" prisons, long and deeply unfair jail terms, etc etc
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You're possibly right on some of those points, but it would be sad to ruin home schooling for everyone. There are a number of very legitimate cases where home schooling can help kids who are having a rough time at school.
> There are a number of very legitimate cases where home schooling can help kids who are having a rough time at school. In almost all cases where kids end up homeschooled due to having a "rough time", it's because of bullying and teachers and parents not putting a stop to that crap, the rest is stuff like autistic or disabled children who don't get the resources and assistance they need. I'd rather like to improve th…
[ For reasons, in my own ideal world, the biggest experts on a particular child (their parents) would be more involved in their education to begin with. Long story I won't get into here.
But in that particular scenario, one would frankly still need (some) schools. This is for the same reason as before: some kids would end up falling outside that system too. ]
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>I'd probably ignore the child porn allegations - that's a common way to smear folks. 'Schulte referred to the child pornography he was accused of possessing as a "victimless crime"'. Yeah, I'm not sure why you'd defend yourself like that in such a situation.
It is a legitimate defense strategy - and one that actually has valid points, at least for stuff like anime "CSAM". IMO, societies should focus more on preventing the creation of real-life CSAM: - teach children from a young age in an appropriate way about sex including what the names of genitalia are, so that in a court examination you don't have to argue about what "down there" means, and consent. Children can only…
Even as an adult, when I went to my doctor about haemorrhoids, she brought a nurse in the room for the examination.
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>Odds are there is something on your hard disk right now that could be classified as child porn, if the accuser was motivated enough. This sounds like projection. Not everyone blunders through life with a massive stash of questionable pornography. The criteria for determining what is and is not child pornography are quite clear: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A
It does sound like projection. Your link comes down to depiction of “a minor”. How does one prove an image is an 18 year old, even if they are, and not 1 day younger? It’s unquestionable for children but not so clear near the age of 18. I think that is the point of the poster, that it’s really not clear on all porn what age the people are. Even with disclaimers they could be lies.
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>Odds are there is something on your hard disk right now that could be classified as child porn, if the accuser was motivated enough. This sounds like projection. Not everyone blunders through life with a massive stash of questionable pornography. The criteria for determining what is and is not child pornography are quite clear: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A
It does sound like projection. Your link comes down to depiction of “a minor”. How does one prove an image is an 18 year old, even if they are, and not 1 day younger? It’s unquestionable for children but not so clear near the age of 18. I think that is the point of the poster, that it’s really not clear on all porn what age the people are. Even with disclaimers they could be lies.
That's up to the jury. I'll defer to their judgement and in the absence of additional information (information neither of us possesses) that is the only reasonable position to take.