| In September of this year, a 15 year old girl named Amanda Todd from British Columbia posted a video onto Youtube wherein she detailed a terribly fucked up story with Bob Dylan-esque cue cards, of how one internet pedophile had deliberately destroyed her happiness. You can get all of the painful details from the video, but basically she flashed a strange guy while she was in the seventh grade over webcam. That image got into the hands of a pedophile who tracked her through high school, then leaked the images to her friends and family, while continuing to stalk her online and heavily disrupt her life. Some of the Canadian mainstream media have described it as “bullying... through online social media” but clearly this pattern of controlling and destructive behavior is more than just a case of “no one likes you” wall posts and “you’re fat” instant messages.
In light of the recent exposure of Reddit’s most notorious jailbait administrating troll by Gawker, and the news of Hunter Moore’s disgusting little empire embarking on a new online endeavor, it seems like all eyes are uncomfortably on the jailbait exploitation community on the internet. While jailbait certainly has a more palatable ring to it than child porn, it has clearly become a very insidious force on the internet that is pitting overly clever pedophiles against insecure teenagers.
When I was in 7th grade I was taught to be scared of pedos online. Now they're a new organized bread and with Facebook can get anything. They couldnt track me when I was on a forum under layers of fake names bc there was no fb or myspace to link it to. Now there is and that's terrifying. Every underage on the Internet needs to be taught more than "dot share yor addy or real name. They need I know how to have layers and unique Ids and passwords. They need to learn how to dox so they can avoid being doxed and they need to learn that thins like being emo on YouTube is just as attention grabbing to the anon crowds as toting. Even more so. Tits are everywhere. There's another side to this pedo stalking thing and its not just about pedophilia anymore. It's to see if you can get the info. I've done it before, though ive never posted publicly my findings or anything, just to see how much info I can get from a reddit username.
It was a generally decent article, though by no mean something terribly newsworthy. I like the attachment of "how can we blame popular sites for this problem?" down at the end instead of talking about doing something useful. Let's be honest here guys. American culture especially sexualizes teens a whole lot. Its bound to spread north at the end of the day. Its cool though, I mean, its not like pressures to appear sexually attractive will have any adverse effects on people flushed with more hormones than a factory farm. Mmmmyep.While this story is receiving a lot of attention in the media, the Canadian press has so far failed to properly illuminate the role of popular jailbait image boards and the horribly destructive control that one lone creep, hiding behind his computer, had over Amanda’s life.
Do you think that there would be less online perversion if public nudity weren't so taboo? Serious question.
I don't know, I hear that Europe has less issues with nudity being taboo then North America, I wonder if they consume less 'perverted' material. At the very least, I think if public nudity weren't so taboo the damage of doing something like Amanda did would be less.