The oldest major fetish community I am aware of is the Goreans. From anecdotes my dad has shared they were active as early as the late 80s and would have been grooming young girls there 100% if girls used the internet back then.
Flow my tears the policeman said.
None of these places were nearly as accessible to children or the tech illiterate. Platforms like Discord have only made grooming easier.
Pfft. It wasn't but a decade and a half ago you could go on b and find full on naked children (not loli) on the front page. the internet's always been a pedo infested shithole
Okay that doesn't mean that the internet we grew up with was mostly fine though. It was just as bad, it just had less people using it. Discord has centralized a lot of that activity for sure but there's nothing actually new there. If anything the real impact has been the proliferation of mobile devices since even attempting to control use becomes virtually impossible at that point.
Right on, and might I add. Just make a rule. SINGLE player, point A to point B games only. Ban MMO's. Think Paper Mario, Guitar Hero 3, Pikmin, Classic SEGA Sonic games, classic pokimon games, hell for the older teens, the God of War games. I'd get my kid a 3DS.
Me personally? I am not your personal army. And as a grown adult the last thing I’m going to do is go on a game loved by children and predators and seek out communication with the the predators.
Found the lazy, retarded parent.
I played Roblox long enough to remember that. Roblox was extremely different back then too (though online daters have existed on Roblox for as long as 2007, it wasn't nearly as bad as it is now). This has been regarded as privacy mode on Roblox. People on that mode were not allowed to change name and place description and friend requests when they used to have someone type a reason to be friends would be set to "Would you like to be friends?". This also made it extremely difficult for someone to say commands in game too whether it's to regenerate something to admin commands. People in that mode were definitely not able to see what regular users were saying at all in that mode either. They were removed around 2013 with swear words filtered with hashtags and guests were eventually removed in 2017. Because Roblox wasn't maintaining those filers well, Roblox became the nightmare that replicated Sodom and Gomorrah.
Then go do that and stop whining in this thread that we aren't at your beck and call.
You've gotta be pretty auts to read that as a personal army request.
Those were the days. Reminds me of that one news segment that a few content creators mocked back in the day, I believe it was for Animal Crossing on the Wii and it showed footage of the player talking to an NPC with the anchor being all like "this character could be a child predator!" It's all well and good to laugh at how clueless boomer parents were back then, but now the exact sort of thing they were warning us about is actually happening. If they just wanted friend codes to play with their classmates I'd be fine with that too, but random strangers is an instant hell no.
100% - I was on the internet at age 5 in the 90s/00s and was exposed to pornography at a young age via Limewire (misnamed songs/Pokemon stuff), pornography ads, pornographic adware viruses, etc. And this isn't even touching on chatrooms.
They've been sperging for ages about how we need to go to the game and start bullying people, duder.
Fair enough on the Sonic bit. I was just quickly listing non MMO type games of the top of my head. My point was and still is; just ban the fucking online MMO games in your house if you have children. There are hundreds of games that you can choose from that are fun and safe for kids on literally any console you choose to buy and have them entertained. Like that guy said, your kids will not get molested playing the PS2.
It's also complex because of how long successful investigations take.
Yeah, I've been trying to tell my internet-connected friends about this; Shit was fucked up then as it is now, there were just relatively fewer people on the internet, and relatively more people with good grounding. I saw the sickest, most vile shit. Predators attempted to do all sorts of shit to me, I had a mixture of luck, smarts, and a good enough upbringing to have been able to shrug off all that shit, and quite frankly most of it got forgotten real quick, but recently I've been thinking of how much shit I saw as a kid that I just narrowly avoided. Worse, I've been thinking of just how much dumb risky shit I should have done but had already seen how badly it could have turned out, because there were such obvious traps out there.
It's stunning how pervasive this meme is these days, where barring certain pleasures or utilities from your children is considered a "draconian measure". I think Nietzsche said it the best, in a different context, but it applies exactly the same to parenting as well. It was something like, "In order to understand what freedom means, one must be a slave first." If your children never know what slavery looks like, they will not understand what freedom means, and they will readily enslave themselves to sin once they are on their own. This is not a difficult concept to grasp, but to a lot of retarded, lazy parents it clearly seems to be.
