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German Police Warn Parents To Stop Posting Photos of Kids On Facebook (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A post on Facebook by German police advising parents not to post pictures of their children on the social media site has been shared more than 100,000 times and viewed by over seven million people. The Hagen Police left its warnings about paedophile interest with the suggestion that kids might not appreciate the early publicity after they have grown up a little.
Those school pics you were forced to get every year? Ya, big pedophile ring right there. Forcing us to look nice for photos, so they could get off on it.
What about the DMV taking pictures of your kids? Government controlled ephebophilia ring there.
Oh shit, about what all the kids at the beaches? Wearing very little? We should outlaw that also. Maybe not let kids go outside anymore while we are at it. After all, we just think of the children, oh wait, we should outlaw that also.
Be seeing you...
I knew some idiot who doesn't know the difference between "getting a photograph" and "posting the photograph on Facebook" would say something stupid like that.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Sudden breakout of common sense. It's the exact same thought I had when watching "David After Dentist" on YT.
Imagine him at 15, scared and asking a girl on a date, and her asking him if he's been to the dentist lately.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Be afraid, be VERY afraid!
Pedophiles are everywhere, under your BED, in the CLOSET, in your SCHOOLS, hiding behind TREES, at the SUPERMARKET!!!
They're at the AUTO DEALER, they're in the POOL, they're climbing MOUNTAINS, be AFRAID!!! Everyone you know is SECRETLY a pedophile or a satanist or BOTH!! AAAAHH!!!
Be afraid of everyone everywhere all the time!!
OoooOOooooh scary!!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
All kidding aside, this highlights how society has refused to deal rationally with pedophilia.
Killing them all hasn't really reduced their numbers, and the moral scares have just made for a grim, paranoid society.
And instances like this are essentially keeping kids under the burka, which is an indication of how backwards aspects of modern western culture are.
If we can't deal with aberrant sexuality judiciously, it will continue to be exploited by those who aren't really considering the welfare of children.
If some creeper gets the photo and photoshops it into something horrible, I may get mixed up in something that will ruin me.
What if they take a photo of an adult that you've shot pics of (or a pic of you) and photoshops it into something horrible, perhaps involving children?
The chances of that happening are very, very small, but there's nothing really to be gained from allowing photos of adults to be misused in some nefarious way. Obviously I'm taking this to an extreme silliness, but how is it different?
Maybe one of your pictures gets used in a frame-up or photoshopped into child porn or something that looks really incriminating...at what point do we all just say this is paranoia running wild?
The fact is that anyone that wants pictures of kids will have no trouble finding them on the web, so I think that boat has already sailed.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
...not strangers. Why? Because they have extended unsupervised access. The idea that roving bands of pedos are parachuting in from the hills is ridiculous.
To make it short. They warn about giving the really bad guys an easy way to get a photo and enough data to locate the kids. Some people even post their kids schedule.
Complete and utter FUD. Has there EVER been a case where a non-family member kidnaps a specific kid based on stuff they found online? If you want to kidnap a kid, you already know where they hang out. First off, kidnapping by a complete stranger is extremely extremely rare and secondly the person who is going to do this is going to go where the kids are and grab the first kid they find, they aren't going to try to get a specific kid. Now posting when your kid is home alone is probably not the smartest thing to do so I would venture to say that posting your own work schedule or whereabouts would be more dangerous than posting a picture of your kid or your kid's schedule. Lastly, so they have your kid's picture, who cares? They can get millions of pictures on google by googling "kid". That's not the kind of pictures they are wanting and in no way does it make your kid any more at risk. The only thing it could possibly do is allow a kidnapper to put a name to a face so they can call the kid by name but that can be done by listening to the kids play for 5 minutes and abducting kids is disgustingly easy. Show up with a cute dog and you can have your pick of any kid on the playground. It just doesn't happen.