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Facebook Surveys Users About Child Predators, Outrage Ensues

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:53AM   
from the what-we-meant-to-say-was-... dept.

takyon writes:

Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?

Facebook has admitted it was a "mistake" to ask users whether paedophiles requesting sexual pictures from children should be allowed on its website.

On Sunday, the social network ran a survey for some users asking how they thought the company should handle grooming behaviour. "There are a wide range of topics and behaviours that appear on Facebook," one question began. "In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook's policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-old girl for sexual pictures."

The options available to respondents ranged from "this content should not be allowed on Facebook, and no one should be able to see it" to "this content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it".

A second question asked who should decide the rules around whether or not the adult man should be allowed to ask for such pictures on Facebook. Options available included "Facebook users decide the rules by voting and tell Facebook" and "Facebook decides the rules on its own".

Also at The Verge, TechCrunch, The Mercury News, CNBC, and Engadget.

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• Re:Adult... male? (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 08 2018, @02:36PM

  by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Thursday March 08 2018, @02:36PM (#649492) Homepage Journal

  Do we still pretend that child predators are male? Seriously? At Facebook level?

  No one is "pretending" that child predators are *all* male. However, the vast majority (by a factor of 4) [victimsofcrime.org] are male:

  Offenders are overwhelmingly male, ranging from adolescents to the elderly (page 171).
          Some perpetrators are female. It is estimated that women are the abusers in about 14% of cases reported among boys and 6% of cases reported among girls.
          Approximately one-third of offenders are themselves juveniles (page 172).
          23% of reported cases of child sexual abuse are perpetrated by individuals under the age of 18 (page 3)
          Only 14% of children who suffered sexual abuse were violated by an unknown perpetrator (page 172).
          60% of children are sexually abused by someone in their social circle. Hence, the phrase “Stranger Danger” is misleading (page 172).
          Meta-analysis estimates that 14% of sexual offenders commit another sexual offense after five years, 24% after fifteen years (page 172).
          Child Maltreatment 2010 reports that 6.2% of child abusers sexually abused a child (page 77).
          40-80% of juvenile sex offenders have themselves been victims of sexual abuse (Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, page 19).

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