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Here is a 2012 @Reuters series by @mega2e about the thriving online market of "re-homing" adopted children. Big surprise about who wants unwanted children. Pedophiles.
The platforms involved: @Yahoo and @facebook. 1/ #Thread reuters.com/investigates/a…
Here is a 2012 @Reuters series by @mega2e about the thriving online market of "re-homing" adopted children. Big surprise about who wants unwanted children. Pedophiles.
The platforms involved: @Yahoo and @facebook. 1/ #Thread reuters.com/investigates/a…
A FB post for a Californian tries to rehome a Russian 13 yo boy who has displayed sexually aggressive behavior. And a Floridian wants to unload an 11 yo Russian girl "who has FAS with some sexual interest." 2/ 
The article explains that overseas adoptions into the US had become strict, slow and expensive.And the internet paved the way for interstate transfer of children -- private, same-day, and free. Scrutinizing the new parents, is left to the parents eager to unload the kid. 3/
One unloading parent says she hates her kid so much she would have re-homed her to a serial murderer. The series describes re-homings that happen in a single day with just a 400 word Power of Attorney turning over guardianship. One 11yo is rehomed in a gas station parking lot 4/
to a woman (Nicole) whose two bio kids CPS took away permanently and then caused the bathtub drowning death of an 18 month old and a pedophile (Winslow) whose online chat names were Lovethemcute and Lil boylover. 5/
When @Yahoo learned of the bulletin boards, it removed them STAT. Facebook? Nope. Kept them up. FB defended one child peddling page, "Way Stations of Love" with this statement: "Facebook says activity on the page is 'a reflection of society.'" 6/
This statement by FB is meaningful b/c even in 2021 that argument is still used ALL THE TIME -- that we should not blame the internet for bad stuff that happens there b/c it's merely a mirror into our rotting society. However, it ignores the fact that the internet CREATES and 7/
makes convenient, free, and scales up the rot. Some crimes are BECAUSE of the internet -- the 60 m images of child sexual abuse material FB admitted to publishing in 2019, revenge porn, murders rapes and suicides live-posted, the insurrection organized and incited online, 8/
sextortion of children (and adults), misinformation disinformation, widespread conspiracy theories, radicalizing.
I'm curious if the folks who presently say the internet should not be touched b/c it's just a reflection of society, do you feel that FB should have kept up its 9/
I'm curious if the folks who presently say the internet should not be touched b/c it's just a reflection of society, do you feel that FB should have kept up its 9/
Way Stations of Love page?
This series begs for a 2021 follow up by @reuters and/or @mega2e that finds these kids and lets them speak, that thoroughly discusses the role the platforms played and the platforms' knowledge, and that demands the platforms to make 10/
This series begs for a 2021 follow up by @reuters and/or @mega2e that finds these kids and lets them speak, that thoroughly discusses the role the platforms played and the platforms' knowledge, and that demands the platforms to make 10/
reparations to these now adults. 11/11
History is going to be very unkind to some of the decisions big tech has made. There will be a call for reparations. And I say that as somebody who spent 2000-2005 getting restitution for Holocaust survivors.
H/t to my bff @susancrumiller who alerted me to this Reuters series. 13/11
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