"The Guardian is reporting that Facebook sent out a survey yesterday asking users if a male adult creep private messaged a 14 year old girl for “sexual pictures,” how would they feel about that."
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Joe Smith would have loved that.






https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/05/facebook-men-children-sexual-images



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/05/2018 12:01PM by Dave the Atheist.

This will be followed by a survey asking how many Facebook users do not want too much or too little rain this year.

What kind of a sick bastard asks children for nude pictures? Why even ask the question of whether or not this should be allowed? It's illegal if nothing else. For anyone under 18, the age limit difference should be two years. If a sixteen year old asks a fourteen year old for pictures, it's no big deal. Seventeen to fourteen is kind of iffy. Eighteen to fourteen is just wrong (and illegal). There are police units out there where a police officer poses as a minor over the internet and then they arrest the bastard when he shows up to meet the child. They make sure he is told a too-young age before the meeting. I don't have much sympathy for these criminals.

There should be a lockable parental conrol lock-out that can be turned on, on any phone. When it's on, several safety protocols kick-in to protect the child and to notify the parent when certain things happen. When it's off, the adult that owns the phone could access porn, access bank accounts, pay bills electronically, but couldn't access child-level chat rooms or receive photos from the phones of minors unless they are in the minor's address book (monitored by parents). When configured for a minor, adult websites and access to online banking, and other adult things wouldn't work on the child's phone. When someone toggles back and forth between those (adult / child) modes on the same phone several times in a day or week, the carriers could send lists of those individuals to police for investigation. There should be no privacy when an adult communicates with minor children that are not family members. On such a phone, a part of getting the phone to go from child-mode back to adult-mode could be a required waiving of certain rights to not be spied on if the phone is ever again put in to child-mode.



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azsteve Wrote:
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> There should be a lockable parental conrol
> lock-out that can be turned on, on any phone.

There's an app for that.
Dozens, actually...

https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/342731/the-best-parental-control-apps-for-your-phone

This is a good start. What is missing is a way to keep adults out of child-related forums except for those being used by their children. There should be a safe place for the kids to go. It would be like a physical playground. Creepy men who stalk playgrounds and don't have their own kids at the playground tend to get confronted by concerned parents or have the police called on them.

azsteve Wrote:
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> What kind of a sick bastard asks children for nude
> pictures?

ummmm guys like Mormon founder Joseph Smith!

If the internet or phones are that dangerous, why let your kids have them?

Guess what. I grew up without any of that. I survived.

Weird world we live in.

Couldn’t agree more! Parents need to quit giving their kids unlimited and unrestricted access to the internet. I work in IT and have a daughter of my own.

If kids aren’t on social media they can’t be bullied online or harassed by people hiding behind a screen name.

Free Man Wrote:
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> Guess what. I grew up without any of that.
> I survived.

People before you grew up without electricity or telephones.
They survived.

So I guess you don't use either of those, right?

People before you grew up without antibiotics. They survived (well, some of them).

So I guess you don't use those, right?

Yeah, anything you didn't grow up with isn't needed or useful.
And the same applies to all the generations before you.
Right.

Let's go further on this:

Imagine asking members a question,

"My daughter, she's 14 received a text message from a member, he's 38, married. He wanted to know if she was single, and if they could chat privately sometime. What do you think i should do?

Do you think this is ok behaviour?"

Then let them prattle on about calling the cops, the guy is a perv, etc etc.

You don't even need to get anywhere near 'pictures', just a married adult male asking a 14 year old if she is single (ie available to marry in JS parlance) is today clearly seen as a predatory act.


Finally, what has changed in God's eyes that it was ok then to predate on kids but today we CLEARLY see it is immoral and dangerous behaviour?

Which version is true - it's ok or it is not ok (for an unchanging God?)

Facebook. Getting things badly wrong since 2004.

Isn't it time they employed some adults, now?

Facebook and Google are the biggest surveillance operation in human history. If people knew what was really going on, they would think twice about using them.

What I think is happening here is that Facebook is using a worst case scenario to violate people's privacy even more.