Posted on 12/09/2021 2:19:56 PM PST by NohSpinZone
Anxiety about the nation’s children, which is at a steady simmer in the best of times, boiled over in the summer of 2020, when the digital soldiers of QAnon occupied the otherwise innocuous hashtag #SaveTheChildren. Around the same time, major social-media platforms had started blocking overt QAnon accounts and hashtags. From their new beachhead, the digital soldiers were able to disseminate a cascade of false information about child trafficking on Instagram and Facebook: Children were being trafficked on the hospital ship USNS Comfort, then docked in New York City, and through tunnels underneath Central Park.
As outrageous as these allegations were, their timing may have made them sound less fantastical to some. They coincided with the release of popular documentaries about the real sex-trafficking crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who was arrested in July 2019 and committed suicide that August, and who was known for his wide circle of rich and famous acquaintances. (His death had set off a new slew of conspiracy theories.) In this context, the suddenly ubiquitous #SaveTheChildren posts created the illusion of an organic movement rising up to confront a massive social problem. Americans who knew little about QAnon became heavily involved, and when QAnon moved on to other concerns—a stolen election, a poisonous vaccine—these volunteers stayed devoted to the cause of opposing child sex trafficking.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Yeah...it finally got flushed right down the crapper where it belonged.
Doesn't change the fact that you and your buddies spent several years drinking from that demon infested sewer though, does it?
8chan is dead.
Long live 8kun.
It was Demon infested, because we were the demon’s targets.
A CNN producer is the latest child sex perv...
GOPJ wrote:
“A CNN producer is the latest child sex perv...”
Thread here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4020345/posts
40 states receive failing grade on fighting child sex trafficking, report
Alaska was ranked last out of all the states.
States are scored on six different policy issues and given “extra credit” for
extending certain protective policies to youth aged 18 to 24 and child labor
trafficking victims.
The six issues are:
1. Criminal provisions: “Clear criminal laws, including those that criminalize
buyers of sex with children, are needed to ensure all sex trafficking
offenders can be held accountable.”
2. Identification of and response to victims: “States’ laws must identify all
commercially sexually exploited children as victims of trafficking and
provide for a protective, rather than punitive, response.”
3. Continuum of care: “To break the cycle of exploitation, state laws must
provide victims access to funded, trauma-informed services.”
4. Access to justice for trafficking survivors: “A range of civil and criminal
justice remedies must be available for victims under the law.”
5. Tools for a victim-centered criminal justice response: “Criminal justice
procedures for the benefit and protection of victims must be provided under
the law.”
6. Prevention and training: “To help prevent trafficking and promote more
just responses to child sex trafficking victims, training for child welfare,
juvenile justice agencies, law enforcement, prosecutors, and school
personnel as well as prevention education for students, must be required
by law.”
The 10 states with the highest scores are Florida, Texas, Mississippi, California, Washington, Colorado, Kentucky, Utah, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Besides Florida, the rest of the top 10 states were given a grade of D, with state no. 11, Minnesota, being the only other one with a D grade.
More at the link…
~Easy
Guess the Atlantic hasn’t heard about the CNN producer.
Has CNN covered this yet?
...I mean covering as in news stories, not as in covering-up.
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