The Dark Side of Data Mining: Child Sex Trafficking

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In an excellent Tweet thread, quoted in an article for Gateway Pundit, tech expert Dylan Curran compiles an extensive list of all the personal information both Google and Facebook (and if you don't think it's readily shared...) collects on their users. (see link) For the most part this information is sold to advertisers to help them target specific audiences... and I really don't care as much about that (that's what AdBlock is for). But there is another much darker group using this collected data for a far more nefarious reason- child sex traffickers.

Social media platforms have become the number one recruiting tool of these criminals- not that Mark Zuckerberg and the other pervs at Facebook care about that... No, on the contrary- in fact, Facebook encouraged users to send in nude photos of themselves recently. Did they even consider that sexually curious teens and pre-teens might see it, or was that what they were hoping for? This is the truly dark and dangerous underbelly of social media.

Kcentv in Temple, Texas has, in conjunction with KHOU and WXIA in Atlanta, done an expose' of child sex trafficking in America entitled "Selling Girls." They disclose in detail how sex traffickers comb through data from Social Media profiles looking for specific types of information the way any pimp choses and targets women or more often girls to sell... and the money is good. This is a multi-billion dollar enterprise.

The adage "sex sells" is no understatement. We all have an image of what a pimp looks like...

Not the case anymore... Today a pimp can look like anyone you would meet on the street or even in church- maybe even the mom next door...

Why not... there seems to be very little downside. According to the documentary, if someone is caught, they most often get off with a fine or probation. There is seldom any jail time except for repeat offenders- unless you're the victim and get charged with prostitution. This differs from prostitution, however, because the victims (and that's exactly what they are) are minors and cannot legally consent to sex with an adult. Like the documentary says, this is sexual exploitation.

"This is trafficking.

This is modern day slavery.

It’s selling girls."

This is how it works according to the documentary... the case of a girl known as "Carol" and her pimp, Motivation: "Carol* looked toward the darkness before her, then back down at her hands.

She cleared her throat.

She’d just been reminded that she was only 14 years old the first time she was sexually trafficked. Carol says met a guy on Facebook who called himself “Motivation.” He friended her, sold her on a life of no parents, no rules and being able to do whatever she wanted.

Court documents say Joshua “Motivation” Jones took nude pictures of her to post on the internet. He told her after every sex date, she should bring the proceeds back to him. That she didn’t have to wear a condom with clients, but she had to wear one with him. That did she have any other friends who would like to work?

When she told him she had a friend, but she was only 14, court documents say he replied: age doesn’t have anything to do with it.

Then, since the internet on his phone wasn’t working to post those nude photos of her, he forced her on the streets to sell her body for sex.

Carol’s first buyer was an undercover cop.

She was arrested for prostitution, despite federal law, which defines her as a victim."''The story goes on to tell about how the pimp was also arrested. "Carol" went to juvenile detention for prostitution and the pimp got 8 years probation. When "Carol" got out, she was almost immediately picked up by another trafficker... it becomes a revolving door of sexual degradation for these children.

Although many of the girls are "turned out" on the streets, some are sold online. A website called Backpage.com was one such place where these kids were sold. This is a pictorial history of Backpage.com (if the slideshow doesn't work see the third link I posted below)

There is one photo absent from the history however... perhaps the most important-
Thanks to Liz Crokin for the picture.

The story goes on to tell about the men that paid for the services of these girls- most of whom used the same excuse: "I just didn't know." To which I say BS! If a girl, young woman, or however you want to parse it, looks questionable- you don't go on. These men just didn't care and they deserve any punishment they get. This is a tragic story- one that doesn't look like it's going to end anytime soon. Many of these children wind up in porn films and even worse, wind up working in the sex industry for years... and Facebook, Google and other social media platforms that mine and sell the data of their users are at least partially responsible... particularly in light of the fact that many if not most of their clientele are under the age of consent.

http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/want-to-freak-yourself-out-tech-expert-reveals-how-facebook-and-google-are-spying-on-you-and-it-will-blow-your-mind/?
http://www.kcentv.com/article/news/investigations/selling-girls/selling-girls-sex-traffickers-are-targeting-american-children/285-481048470
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