Comment by stuffynoses | Hacker News Reader

Comment by stuffynoses | Hacker News Reader

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We received email after email from parents thanking us for saving their children’s lives, literally.

Yes, please tell me more about all these children whose lives your service saved. Just like To Catch A Predator's ridiculous premise (that digusting, fat 50 year-old men who live in their parents' basement are hooking up with hot teenagers), yours reeks of trumping up a problem that only exists on the extreme fringe. Literally.

one of the partners installed our software. He tested it, he used it, it worked. He got it. He called us and said he wanted to invest as soon as possible.

Who is this investor? I want to know because anyone who would vote money on an anecdotal experience like this is an idiot.

Your story is interesting, but only when it sticks to the parts about you rushing into an investment without due consideration or self-protection.

If you wanted funding, you should've asked Congress for it. They love to exaggerate child sex exploitation as much as your service did.

Indeed, tell us more about these children's lives you saved. I've done extensive research on these occurrences when my first startup internet provider first encountered these claims in the nineties. We never found any evidence whatsoever. We did find an overwhelmingly large number of people ready to go on a witch hunt or lynch these so called perpetrators, but that's been going on for thousands of years now.

Has anyone claiming child pornography online ever actually found something? Again, please show us, they would be my first datapoints ever in our assisting of the police in investigating these.

The business model of the OP is itself predatory on the fears and underbelly feelings of uninformed parents. Better to explain to those parents how to raise children so that they are cautious about anything they encouter online.

I used to work for a content filtering company. Yes child porn exists, and it's one of your worst days when these sites start popping up in what you're reviewing, no, we can't send the links to others to "prove" it exists. I no longer work there and I'm glad I don't have days like that anymore.

You're confusing issues. The argument here was whether the OP was misrepresenting occurrence of "grooming", not about illegal pornography.

"I want to know because anyone who would vote money on an anecdotal experience like this is an idiot"

Can't tell if serious? This happens all over the valley all the time. You show investors something they would use many of them would invest.

I have heard "oh, that's cool I would use that," many times for a lot of bad ideas. VCs have egos that cloud their judgement all the time.

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