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Who are you claiming enabled him here? Would it be Discord? Would it be Ribiero's parents that enabled him? The child victims parents for letting them talk to s
by smolder 4y ago
Who are you claiming enabled him here? Would it be Discord? Would it be Ribiero's parents that enabled him? The child victims parents for letting them talk to strangers online at 14? Did you go so far as to think about who specifically you meant here?
I think to your question is flawed because no one is specifically enabling this. The robust and "easy" solution that people seem to think they deserve actually doesn't exist. Every possible solution to online sexual predation has big costs: either massive collective effort by childrens' caregivers, loss of privacy for practically everyone (and the consequent dangerous power imbalance that comes with that), loss of intergenerational social interaction... Seriously, not letting kids interact with adults outside their immediate family is another kind of harm.
Personally I think the least-bad solution is getting better at the status quo: platforms police content, authorities punish predators when caught, and parents take care of their kids and police their relationships and/or teach them what they need to protect themselves.