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Re:Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit ... by Analemma_ on Sunday July 23, 2023 @02:58PM (#36838500)
They did, but it only existed on small scales then. The Internet drove the cost of production and distribution down to basically zero, so, as classical economics predicts, the amount of production exploded.
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Re:Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit ... by brightlancer on Sunday July 23, 2023 @04:52PM (#36839712)
> The Internet drove the cost of production and distribution down to basically zero, so, as classical economics predicts, the amount of production exploded.

No, economics predicts that _use_ will explode if the cost is zero, but that's not a comment on production.

Pocket cameras have reduced the cost to record sexual abuse, but that's dwarfed by the ability to reproduce/ distribute those copies.

I don't think that means sexual abuse is more common. On every other metric we have, it appears sexual abuse is _less_ common.

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