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Yet they are completely unwilling to put it to use by removing pedophilic advertising off of their trading platform:

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Cute-sexy-kids-swimwe...

This isn't one isolated instance, the platform is absolutely full of this filth.

What? It’s a swimsuit for kids. Am I missing something here?

I think the parent is concerned that it has the word 'sexy' in the title. In reality I suspect that this is just absentminded SEO tactics, or the result of an automated system. Even easier to do if english isn't your native language and it just becomes "put these magic words in the title to rank higher"

Huh? That's a very normal looking swimsuit. It just has the word "sexy" in the description. Sometimes children even swim naked! I think you're being too puritanical. It's not child abuse to sell children's clothes.

I should add that peadophilia is a sexuality, not a crime. Not all peadophiles abuse children and we should stop painting them all with the same broad brush as child abusers.

Yes, not all pedophiles act on their urges, yes, it may be stupid SEO tactics, yes, OP is a prude, but that whole page is just begging to be labeled as pedophilic in nature.

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