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> KMP or VoL I'm aftaid of putting those terms in my search engine, can you please expand those acronyms?
They must be the names of darkweb child porn sites. Abbreviating the names is done so that people who are familiar with the site will know it, but people unfamiliar with the site will not gain any new information or be able to find it. The same is done with private torrent trackers and other piracy groups.
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What I could find was that there are estimated to be about 350-500 million firearms in the US. The closest thing to a breakdown was 30-50 million semi-auto rifles, and probably close to a 60/40 split handgun to long gun over time (article shows trends). Murders per year using rifles and shotguns were less than 600 combined. Handguns accounted for over 6000. So the number of hanguns is maybe something like 20% higher…
Rifles are problematic as a single category since that involves hunting rifles. We can look at machine guns as a category that is neither rifle or handgun, and with limited use in hunting. That said, the death rate of machine gun ownership may still be lower than handgun ownership, with a possible explanation being that it is easier to buy a handgun compared to a machine gun. A further jump into the data would then e…
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Are you sure? Can't they say "yeah pedophilia is fucked up but reading all our emails is also fucked up"?
> reading all our emails is also fucked up Why? are you hiding something in your email?
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No, you said explicitly that kids are sexually assaulted at a higher rate in schools than they are in churches or scouts. You clarified that you mean per 100,000 children more are likely to be sexually assaulted in schools. Usually when someone has a belief like this, it’s grounded by something that they read or learned somewhere. Where did you learn this? Why aren’t you sharing the source with everyone else so they…
> just give the receipts. Just read my last comment I posted two hours before you posted yours? > you’re ignoring as well. You're assuming facts not in evidence. > We could say that rate should be examined per hour because a kid will spend 30 hours per week at school vs... "Don't worry Timmy, even though you were molested at school, because you're forced to go there every (week)day and spend more time there than chur…
I was a scout and I natively speak Spanish, so I never learned what the ranks are called in English (and after nearly 30 years I've pretty much completely forgotten them in Spanish too, if I'm being honest). Are you going to call me a liar too?
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The more… enthusiastic gun people among us think that the national firearms act (which strictly regulates automatic weapons) is an abomination. It’s unique in that it’s the only right that aligns with business marketing. Peddling fear, mostly to insecure men, has sold hundreds of millions of guns. The fetishized nature of modern gun culture killed, in addition to people, a lot of shooting sports and hunting.
What a strange take. I grew up in a small hunting town (I'm in my early 30s), where most high school boys (most girls didn't hunt, but some did) had a rifle and/or shotgun in their truck, mounted against the inside back of the cab where you could see it plain view. We had 0 homicides from guns in the 19 years I lived there, there was 1 suicide by gun that I know of. Many of us grew up hunting to feed our family. This…
Reality is shooting sports licensing churns significantly and has for many years - the people doing it get older every year. Some of the stats look better becuase many states offer more deer tags to fewer hunters.
There is a huge culture problem. Army LARPing and conspiracy move guns. Legal arbitrage makes the retail channel a haven for smuggling. Marketing lands heavily on that and politics. The sportsman (and often conservationist) is a relic notion.
Maybe my perception is off, but it seems like there's a huge push by the legislature and some people to do anything and everything to prevent CSAM, yet almost nothing seems to be done to prevent CSA. For CSAM, there's all sorts of monitoring, scanning, identify capturing, etc. But it's all after abuse has taken place, and it seems that many of the people actually arrested are arrested for CSAM and not CSA. This has e…
for the UK, there has been a massive shift to prevent this kind of stuff.
anyone who even volunteers with children or vulnerable adults needs to be screened. Charities are required to have policies for dealing with vulnerable people safely.
but to the point, Apple halfarse CSAM reporting.
Whatsapp which doesn't do "CSAM scanning" reports in one hour more CSAM than apple does in a year. From memory meta (instgram, facebook and whatsapp) reported millions of cases of CSAM for 2021, compared to apple's ~250 (not thousand, just 250)
for facebook its automated scanning, but for whatsapp, its just design. its really obvious how to report a message/image. in imessage, its impossible, there is no mechanism to long press/select/other a message.
Now, Facebook are bastards in virtually every way, but for whatsapp at least, they have made GUI changes that have real positive impact on CSAM protection.
Apple has not.
They made some noise about hashing, but thats invasive and ironically noisier than having user reports.
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> there’s a pattern of escalation with people and they tend to accumulate collections and many escalate to actual behavior I was curious about this. I did find some research here: https://www.suojellaanlapsia.fi/en/post/csam-users-in-the-da... (2021) That paper states > Traditional research on individuals who use CSAM is often inherently biased as it has focused primarily on convicted and known offenders. and appears…
FYI you are shadowbanned. Did you write this comment with AI? If you did, that's why.
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> On the CSA side, you rarely hear about arrests (they happen but less than CSAM). Because it is nearly always someone we know. Someone who we just cannot imagine would ever do such a thing, even when the evidence is glaringly obvious. And I suspect that the fraction of the population diddling kids in real life is breathtaking, and nobody really wants to face that head on. Too uncomfortable. I could just be overly cy…
I thought it had never happened around me in my whole life, but my sister recently told me that when she just in primary school, a friend of my dad gave her a lift and while she was in the car, inserted his fingers on her. Like WTF! I really had no idea this could have happened in my environment. I guess it probably happened more than I know to others too uncomfortable to say anything, took my sister 30 years to say…
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The thing is that a society does not always do only ONE thing. You mentioned that there are better ways to protect kids. But maybe they cost more (e.g. banning firearms is dead cheap, while setting up a structure with lots of psychologists specialized in teenager problems is really expensive). Also you can do one and the other ... at the same time. E.g. suicides of kids/teenagers ( And keep in mind, the total deaths…
Banning firearms isn't "dead cheap" if you have 400 million in existence. The enforcement would cost a lot, even if you didn't perform a mandatory buyback program. Germany doesn't have an outright ban on guns, but strict regulation. Running the regulation costs money. A note about copying - you have to look at the culture to see if how things will work. Germany has vastly different socioeconomics than the US, and soc…
London, with a population of ~8 million has the same murder rate as new Orleans, which is 300k people. Not as in x murders per 100k, but as in total murders in a city.
In terms of knife crime the USA has a slightly _higher_ rate of knife crime than the UK. Bear in mind the UK counts attacks with knifes as knife crimes, where as the states only appear to include death by knives.
Which means that even if you took away gun deaths (~70% of all us homicides) you're still more likley to be stabbed in the USA compared to the USA.
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> ones who have been involved in abuse scandals in the past (Churches, Scouts, etc) And those groups still have lower rates of abuse than Schools which do a lot less training and enforcement of youth protection policies. Children are still safer in Scouts and churches than in schools. Just about every kid goes to school though, so people just prefer to sweep that under the rug and focus on targeting organizations the…
And those groups still have lower rates of abuse than Schools What evidence do you have of this? The only sources I can find that would even vaguely support your claim switch to talking about physical abuse in schools, or sexual assault committed by fellow students. To be clear, we're discussing the sexual assault of children by adults here. We're not talking about physical abuse, nor are we talking about assault by…