cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49717026
🐍 Not shocked by #Meta or the kind of people they put in charge of their “digital experiences for kids”¹.
Exactly the kind of person to entrust with social media #ageverification (calls, live videos, photographs etc.).
I mean they already love scanning messages for child sexual abuse material via #ChatControl².
☑️ Entrust children’s data to the people literally caught exploiting them, all under the banner of protecting kids?
¹ https://cybernews.com/cybercrime/meta-engineering-manager-caught-sexting-teen
² https://www.techspot.com/news/113062-eu-revived-law-meta-google-scan-messages-critics.html
This is commonplace. There’s a reason that the kids call their youth pastor the freak of the week, because the previous one just got booted for being too creepy and the new one is likely no less.
I have a hypothesis about it, as youth pastors are supposed to council teens while also selling them Jesus (and devotion to this specific church). Counciling really needs to be unconditionally in good faith. Selling them something falls right in to the chasm of serving two masters, and once the pastor is betraying his flock to push the church agenda, it becomes too tempting to also push a personal agenda. And teens struggling with personal problems (and often family or society problems) can be super grateful and easily manipulable when you actually help them.
This is one of the reasons teachers are supposed to be trained, credentialed and professional. Part of that training is being aware of the social dynamics that can be mistaken for romance on egalitarian terms, and it’s so not. And then, teachers still occasionally wreck their careers by getting involved with their favored students.
Youth pastors are not trained in this at all, so that even ones who didn’t go in intending to be a predator will sometimes yield to temptation.
And tech guys tasked with creating social media for children are not appropriately trained either, and in fact no-one is even thinking of it.
To be fair, I bet he absolutely nailed that job. It’s like Hannibal Lector being in charge of catering.
“I’m your man for the job. Believe me, I know kids inside and out.”
This guy at the interview probably.
I don’t think sexting minors counts as “building a digital experience for kids”.
Sexting is digital and getting hit on by a pedophile is certainly an experience.
Heyoooo
Could be he was just doing field research?
He fully admitted to sexting minors and grooming them.
Why are you making excuses for this guy?
They meant doing field research at their job for the purpose of exploiting kids as a subtle nudge at the fact that Facebook was created to exploit college girls without their knowledge.
This is what happens when you cut out Scooby-Doo from Scooby-Doo shows.
Ah so it’s just jokes about this man grooming and sexting minors. SO much better!
No one is willing to do anything about the pedophile problem because none of us are willing to risk anything to do something about it. Especially when the things are our jobs and our houses and in lots of cases our lives and the lives of ourr children.
He was joking
