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How does the effectiveness of tracking down individual cases in this way compare to e.g. improving the eoconomic incentives overall? Commercial child abuse is m
by justasimpleman 8y ago
How does the effectiveness of tracking down individual cases in this way compare to e.g. improving the eoconomic incentives overall? Commercial child abuse is mostly a result of deprived economic circumstances, in which people see more benefit in selling their children rather than giving them the best future possible, if I'm not mistaken.
I don't intend to spoil the enthusiasm here, but wouldn't supporting welfare hence be a more effective measure than investing in fancy tech? That latter only increases the deterrants which seem hard to increase any further to begin with.
- bane 8y agoOne of the things I learned in the presentation is that economic incentives are not typically the motivation for this kind of evil. The "currency" in the environment appears to very much be fresh photos and videos of kids being sexually abused. The trade in the material is unfortunately large. The descriptions of how the systems worked reminded me very much of the kinds of upload/download ratio systems you might find on software and movie/music piracy boards.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoEconomic incentives aren't going to encourage someone to not sell their child for deplorable purposes; if you don't emotionally care for your child, money isn't going to make you care. On the other hand, if you can use a non-profit to pay terrible/uncaring/abusive parents to hand over their children voluntarily (surrendering parental rights) and to get sterilized to prevent the harm of any more children, that is a cause I would write checks to all day long. Disclaimer: I am a parent, and have fostered neglected children.
- hopler 8y agoprojectprevention.org pays serial child neglecters to get birth control
- justasimpleman 8y ago> Disclaimer: I am a parent, and have fostered neglected children. And that makes you an expert in criminology?
- toomuchtodo 8y agoI don’t proclaim to be an expert, just someone with an opinion and some domain experience.
- justasimpleman 8y agoYou need to rely on large scale studies to make statements about the population at large. You can use your small number of data points (anecdotes) to generate hypothses, but you need a lot more data to test these hypotheses.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoBuild the study and I’ll find someone to fund it. No one ever said, “we have too much good data”.