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Those are doing a lot of damage if you ask me. Real kids are not that "open" to have cyber-sex with strangers.

By making fake jailbaits, you are baiting adults into... cyber sex with kids! "Hey, the kids love it! Let's keep going!"

This is not a solution.

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Are you really so blind to the fact of poverty, or the sheer numbers of people involved, that you think one computer graphics entrapment tool is driving any serious part of the "supply"? This is poor people, and victims of sociopathic criminals. And one program.

One of the major problems with law enforcement today is that so long as they carefully skirt the edges of what is legally defined as "entrapment", they can bait people into crimes, and arrest them for it even if otherwise they would not have committed any crime at all.

This really isn't good, and that's what the anti-entrapment statutes are for, but law enforcement finds its way around them... That's one of the best ways to catch "criminals", and catching criminals is their job, right?

Surely you don't think having a bot introduce itself as a 10-year-old Filipina counters as entrapment. That's not even skirting the line — based on what they've shown, the bot is not the one that brings up sex.

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