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> 40% of CP investigations in Germany are started against minors

This in particular seems like such a silly outcome of over-regulation and bureaucracy. Amazing. Research suggests most child sexual abuse does not have much of a long-term effect at all:

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-replicatio...

This (of course!) does not mean it is good or should be done, but it suggests this is not an urgent issue, certainly not one that can justify abolishing privacy, especially when these measures only catch the small fish, not the large trafficking rings who will probably switch to different means of communication once theirs gets compromised.



You're arguing that child sexual abuse is "no that bad" by citing a guy whose "research papers" include gems like

* The left-liberal skew of Western media

* What Happened to Brussels? The Big Decline and Muslim Immigration

* Mental illness and the left

* Human Biodiversity for Beginners: A Review of Charles Murray's Human Diversity

* Race Differences: A Very Brief Review

* Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A systematic review and meta-analysis

* Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability

* Sex Distribution, Life Expectancy and Educational Attainment of Comedians

* Immigrant crime in Germany 2012-2015

* Country of origin and use of social benefits: A large, preregistered study of stereotype accuracy in Denmark

* Inequality in the United States: Ethnicity, Racial Admixtureand Environmental Causes

* Increasing inequality in general intelligence and socioeconomic status as a result of immigration in Denmark 1980-2014

* Criminality and fertility among Danish immigrant populations

He boasts 24 publications in Mankind Quarterly and 20 in OpenPsych, both of which he seems to run himself. Mankind Quarterly according to Wikipedia 'has been described as a "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment", a "white supremacist journal", an "infamous racist journal", and "scientific racism's keepers of the flame"'.

There are excellent cases to be made why privacy and encryption should not be compromised in the name of hot button issues like "protecting children" but citing a study by a "scientific racist" and eugenicist, who is a known advocate for legalizing child pornography, to trivialize child sexual abuse is not it.

You don't need to be a "left liberal" not to cite Emil Kirkegaard. Being a decent human being or having any appreciation of actual science would suffice.


The study is not by him. I wasn't even aware who hosted it; I only found this link somewhere on the web and thought it might be relevant.




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