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The BBC found images of Zora while investigating the global trade of child sex abuse material, estimated to be worth billions of dollars by Childlight, the Global Child Safety Institute.
You can tell capitalism is problematic when reporters feel a need to estimate the monetary value of child sexual abuse material.
Sometimes I wonder why I open the internet.
This shit just makes me sad. Everything I have heard about today in the news is just fucked up and depressing.
To quote Dan Harmon:
If you ask a toaster, "What's the most important thing in the world?" it's going to tell you, "Bread." And if you ask a toaster its opinion of bread, it's going to tell you, "It's not toasted enough." So let's look at the television as an appliance. What's it doing? It's making you watch it. "Is your neighbor racist? Is it dangerous to go outside? Fuck yeah!" says the television, "Does your racist neighbor have bread?" says the toaster. "Bring it in here!" "And if you cant finish it, put it in me' says the refrigerator. But the fucking television is the worst of all. It's telling you, "Whatever you do, stay in your living room," and it will tell you anything to make that happen.
So now let's look at the internet as an appliance...
The fuck's he going to do about it? He can't even get rid of this one about himself.
