After confirming the authenticity of the Bigo livestreamer with the authorities, The Times searched the Apple and Google app stores for other video chat apps. Reporters identified a sample of more than 80 apps that advertised children before stopping the search. They later contacted Homeland Security Investigations, the government’s main law enforcement group for international exploitation, for comment.
“The number one customer base paying for this abuse is in the United States,” the agent said. “It’s not like they are abused once a day. It’s 50 men getting 50 separate shows. They’ll wake up these kids in the middle of the night to be abused.”
Asked about The Times’s sample of offending apps, Mr. Sainz said a majority had been detected during the company’s standard review process, with an additional 20 taken down after an internal investigation in response to The Times’s findings.
You can just call it capitalism.
Yeah child abuse didn’t exist before capitalism
Child abuse for profit?
Nor did paying for it apparently. And it certainly doesn’t exist in whatever replacement OP wants…
Are you saying that child abuse for profit exists outside of capitalism? Any examples?
Look at any authoritarian regime. Here’s an article about laws by country, and Russia and China rank very poorly. I don’t think we can trust statistics for authoritarian regimes, but those statistics exist if you look.
yo wassup OP here on the mic
Wrong OP, I was referring to @[email protected].
Because children are free to be raped, making it a free market activity?
Basically, yes. Everything is commoditized, even the abuse of humans.