Comments on: Slavery vs Child Porn

By: etbe

etbe — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:07:55 +0000

David: I agree that a large portion of child abuse is from trusted adults (relatives, teachers, priests, etc). But in terms of what can be relatively easily stopped stopping slavery seems an easy target.

RichiH: Sorry about that being eaten. What browser do you use? IceWeasel/Firefox won’t lose your comment in that situation even if you lack the Lazarus plugin.

If you watch the TED talk (which is really good) then you will note that the speaker clearly makes that point. Liberating slaves starts with criminal prosecution of slavers. Then the slaves are given some education so that they can get paid work.

Good point about well building project.

sin: Well you aren’t allowed to publish a book about euthanasia, so the great firewall of Australia which is claimed to be just about child-porn will block it among many other things. Give someone a hammer and they treat every problem as a nail.

By: sin

sin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:13:55 +0000

What’s with the blocking of euthanasia documentation all about in Australia ? I mean ok, I can understand the child porn thingie, but other stuff ?

By: RichiH

RichiH — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:10:06 +0000

I just wrote a lengthy reply and Iceweasel ate it.

Long long story short:

By buying slaves, you give an incentive to create more slaves while increasing their value.

Factories still need workers, slaves still need food, first-wolders still want cheap stuff.

In Africa, one of the well-digging projects forces villages to stop circumsizing girls in exchange. One village broke the promise and their well was filled in again. Guess what the other villages did not do.

By: David T.

David T. — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:08:10 +0000

Although freeing all slaves is a good thing to do and would probably reduce the number of new child pornography created, I am not sure if it will be as effective as you hope. About 60% of all sexual abuse of children happens by someone close (family, “friends”, neighbours).

(Freeing slaves is still a much better way to spend government money than trying to censor the WWW.)