God bless. Stay safe and please keep your children secure.
It is sad that children already feel fear because of this happenings. They should not have to suffer from this.
There is some evidence that this type of depraved behavior has been going on for a long time. Not just child abuse but large child trafficking rings, probably controlled by very powerful interests. Not sure that the governments in all cases are directly involved, but it wouldn't surprise me. They certainly look the other way. If you look at global trends, you can see that when a decrease happens in one country / part of the world, there's an increase in another part of the world, so it's likely these trafficking organizations operate on a global scale, shifting their efforts as one or another country has a crackdown.
I think the world being more connected through technology and the internet has both good and bad aspects. Like any tool, the internet can be used for good or evil. It's used for both. I do believe that over the long run, that good will overrule evil because that is the nature of humanity. While we are pretty primitive in many ways, at our core most of us, as individuals, are good people and that aggregation will overcome. I believe that Bitcoin and blockchain technology, along with other modern technologies, make it easier for this to come about.
It's really the gatekeeper situation that I've talked about before, gatekeepers control the world. Decentralization removes gatekeepers, allowing the world to control itself. Each person can be more sovereign, each country can have more control over their own priorities. Some believe that decentralization will lead to the end of governments, and maybe in some cases that is true. But I don't think the government, in general, is bad, just that the power has been badly abused. There are some functions that are best performed by a group of people that agree on a set of priorities. This is "government". To the extent that government serves as gatekeepers, that function will be greatly reduced or removed, but some form of order over chaos is, in my view, a positive thing in some specific areas.
The fact that we can discuss this topic, a group of people that don't know each other, meeting in a virtual space on the Internet, shows the power of this technology to help us in discussing problems and even finding solutions to them. Which hopefully leads to less evil in the world, such as these child trafficking operations.
Best regards,
Ben
