I just heard an NPR piece blithely talking about how enormously rich internet companies are peddling the attention span of children by "offering" them increased access to attractive programming. Having recently noticed the number of young children who were grossly obese, something that would have been extremely rare as recently as fifty years ago, that effort should be seen as a national security threat. More Americans are dying from obesity related diseases and disorders than have been killed by every terror attack we have ever suffered.
One of the media companies breezily mentioned as having attracted the attention of children before adults even noticed it was Tumblr. I would be counted among those adults who didn't notice Tumblr much until I revived my researches into the predominant media presentation of gay men, pornography. One of the things I noticed almost immediately is that in both straight and gay porn on Tumblr photographs and film clips of clearly adult men raping clearly underage children is rampant, free and fully available. And by children I don't mean eighteen-year-olds who look fifteen, children though those are, I mean children who appear far younger than that. And there are graphic images, drawings, anime style crap which depicts the rape of even younger children than are raped for the camera. Quite often violently and sadistically raped. I've blocked Tumblr from my computer. If I accidentally click on one of its websites, the message "Shouldn't you be working" comes up. So don't bother with the rote response that "if you don't like it you don't have to look at it." Children who are raped to produce child porn don't have such an easy out.
Where's the Dateline sting operation? The research to find this stuff is as easy as putting in a few relatively innocuous seeming search terms and clicking a few keys. It is free and easily available, the disclaimer that the person putting the images on Tumblr that they "believe" the "models" are all over the age of 18 is a clear lie, it's obvious many of them are beneath any age of consent in any American state, today. Many of them clearly from Eastern Europe or the third-world
Last month I wrote about the practice of child sacrifice, pointing out that it wasn't something left behind in Pagan pre-Russia or the Inca Empire. Tumblr's tacit permission to disseminate photographs of children being raped by men is a return to Roman Paganism, when it wasn't uncommon for slave owners to hire out slave children, of both genders, to temple brothels, to be raped by men who would pay for the permission to do that. Children who survived that either went on to adult slavery or adult prostitution though it is almost certain many of them didn't survive it. I have no doubt many of the children being raped for the benefit of the internet trade in their images results in many of them dying or having shortened, blighted lives. Instead of a corrupt theocratic Pagan temple benefiting or a desperate effort to placate gods to provide adequate food, today's child sacrifice is to the cult of "free speech" and "free press", though behind it is the massive theocratic rule of the worshipers of Mammon.
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