Internet predator threats
One child harmed is too many, OK? Let's make that clear. But I've always had the suspicion that the panic over Internet predators was overhyped. Can cops getting their jollies by working overtime posing as jailbait lure sociopaths into traps? Sure they can. But how big is the problem?
A high-profile task force created by 49 state attorneys general to find a solution to the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded that there really is not a significant problem, despite years of parental anxieties and media hype.
The Internet Safety Technical Task Force was charged with examining the extent of the threats children face on social networks like MySpace and Facebook, amid widespread fears that older adults were using these popular sites to deceive and prey on children.
But the report compared such fears to a “moral panic” and concluded that the problem of child-on-child bullying, both online and offline, poses a far more serious challenge than the sexual solicitation of minors by adults.



Comments
What in the world is Liz Massey gonn'a report on now we know those innertube sex fiends were hornswoggled into it?
Posted by: 70%er
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January 13, 2009 04:36 PM
Of course the smart child users would be having the children get their parents' credit card numbers.
If you never suffered from id theft or credit card number theft then you have no idea of what
a shocking world you will enter if it happens to you.
How much do local cops do on that issue?
Bullying is a problem? How in the world will the USA produce another George W. Bush without
children learning to be bullies?
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Posted by: eLwood
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January 13, 2009 06:47 PM
This has been a witch hunt from day one.
Another way to control by fear.
Posted by: kretara
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January 13, 2009 07:07 PM
As the father of 2 nubile young girls I am 100% against mixing sex and kids. But the media learned back in George Washington's day that sinsational sells big big big! In my adult lifetime I can recall when the media hyped it until every childcare worker was a child molesting monster.
Next it was child molesting fathers. Far too many frustrated women going through a divorce found out all spotlights would be trained on that sorry ass if they just said...oh, and I think he's touching the kid's pee pee. Cops all over the nation made sure the sorry father/monster got dropped 3 or 4 times on the way to the squad car. Nothing much ever came from either of these 2 giant news stories. Of course there are monsters out there, but really very few.
Now, if you take some potato-faced guy who hasn't been laid in 5 years or in his entire life, and you put some 40 year old cop on the other end of an IM saying...ohhh ohhh my breasts are so tender.....I'm aching to touch a crimson darth vader! And so on and so forth...things that no normal 13 year old would even know to say....then yeah....the losers who works the night shift at the 7-11 and the guys whose wives cut them off 12 to 15 years ago.....will often be persuaded to try to meet this unusual little girl with a the incredible sex drive of 3 grown men.
It's more about being lonely and frustrated and stupid, than it is about stealing our daughters and locking them in a basement sex dungeon. Those kinds of people are as common as serial killers, in other words real real rare.
But not according to your TV set and all the magazines that love to jerk you out of the grocery line or out of your easy chair with an idea so scary that you want to tear your hair out by the roots. I watched that To Catch a Predator a couple of times and had visions of humans being thrown in the lion's den. Poor dumb schmucks thinking with their dicks, driven to criminal acts in hope of scratching their itch. Look at them.....young doughy losers and old washed up men. There's a might big pool of Americans that no living person wants to FK....now there's a big problem...where is their bailout?
I don't think very many of these losers could be classified as monsters....they're just needy and pitiful. But man what a great laugh that shows provides. It has it all.....laughing at some goofy strutting FK'er being set up to the hilt.....then the man with the microphone comes out of the shadows as the pretend skank slips out of the room.
Deer in the headlights look....big lecture....a goofball without an excuse in the world other than...OK...I admit it....I'm the losingest loser in the whole world! Then the guy with the mic pretends to let the perp go and of course.....BINGO.....cops coming out in all directions.....stupid stupid stupid.
I'm very lucky to be only moderately desperate, like most men married over 25 years who look in the mirror every morning and see death rushing headlong at them. I'm also lucky that my kink was always older women. Shall we expect a show in the future showing cops pretending to be 82 year old women still hot to trot? Lord I hope not!
I seem to have spent my whole life apologizing for human behavior. I rarely ever hate, most of the time I feel sad or embarrassed when adults screw up so very very badly. There are millions of lonely people in America. Rather than worry about laws concerning biting cats and the 11 people in the US who will chop up your child, it appears to me the much greater danger is lonesome losers of all ages. From Columbine to Bill Gwatney, from Mormon kids to John Lennon.....we got far more problems and deaths that can be attributed to millions of the Boo Radleys amongst us.
If you're worried about your kids.....WATCH THEM...it's your job.
Posted by: Deathbyinches
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January 13, 2009 07:39 PM