RE: Steemit Pedophile Ring Exposed
Thank you for your response.
Being rational is important of course but being aware is important as well.
This platform has thousands if not tens of thousands of people posting. I am new here and I know that I tend to follow people without checking their content.
If for nothing else, reading this post made me understand that I need to be more vigilant in my choice to who I follow and upvote. There are plenty of people that shares amazing posts, pictures, art and other stuff. why on earth, those 4 chose to upvote these pictures that could easily be identified as type of "porn" even if it was not child porn?
The reasons could be:
1- They don't know what they voted. In this case I say, why you waste your vote power (which we all know its valuable) on something you don't know?
In this case, I invite those accused to come fourth and state what they thought to build trust with the rest of us again (if they want)
2- They know what they voted and wanted to vote it. In this case I can conclude that they support/encourage these types of posts. Something other steemians don't agree with, especially that the contents are plagiarized and there are many other contents that are worth noticing and voting for.
I do hope as well that people realize how serious some of their actions are. As bad as it may sound the accusations made. I find it equally bad upvoting posts with shady or unacceptable contents, even if the upvote was for an "OK" content as @therealwolf stated.
I understand that none of you or us want to be accused of a serious issue without proof. But as far as I see, they could have chosen to stay clear from such contents like many other steemians probably did.
Some people like naked photos - they saw a bum and they voted. I digress that they spent more than a second examining the photo and thinking that there is a chance that the person is underage. Partly being because child pornography is not just frowned upon by the general public, but it is highly illegal. Most people wouldn't allude to the potential that it could be child pornography.
Creating a post about this person, was probably not a bad idea, because his other content actually had voyeuristic but not pornographic photos of clearly underaged people.
However the photograph in question, does not provide evidence that this is child porn - NSFW is accepted on steemit, just because you don't like it doesn't mean others feel the same way; I have no feelings for or against it.
Creating victims of the followers of this person, especially in the absence of evidence is just plain wrong. Go see the lone wolfs page and see how he is getting harassed for no reason.
I argue that more harm came off this article, than the article in question. Bullying, public slander, harrassment and very serious unfounded accusations in the absence of any evidence aside from opinion.
Joining in solidarity is a beautiful thing. But you must know what the people you are joining are doing. You must know exactly why you are joining - emotions aside. This did not happen today.