• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    12 days ago

    Those kids already have exploiters; their parents. The right to communication should be granted to all, and especially the most vulnerable.

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      12 days ago

      They have schools, churches, neighbors, other family, etc etc. There are plenty of organized groups online looking for kids to exploit.

      You’re assuming that they’ll find good people online. If they don’t they’ll end up much worse than when they started.

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          12 days ago

          I live in New York City. Old timers here remember when 42nd Street was called ‘the Minnesota Strip.’ It got that name because thousands of young people [some as young as 12] would jump on buses and come to New York to live the dream. They’d be met by pimps who routinely patrolled the bus terminal and quickly gathered up as many as they could.