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>Human trafficking is a ~$10b market in just the United States. You realize that kiddie porn is part of that industry, right?

I in fact haven't seen articles talk about that part of human trafficking before. So what amount of that money is being made specifically through the creation of child pornography? And do you know if piracy increases or decreases the demand for paid child porn?

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most common figures on human trafficking are horrifically inaccurate, due to either A. grossly inaccurate sampling or B. efforts on behalf of parts of the evangelical & feminist communities to expand the definition, e.g. to define anyone involved w/ helping someone illegally enter a state as a "human trafficker", even if they're a family member/friend of the traveller in question, or to define anyone who illegally crosses a border to engage in sex work as a "victim"

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