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> Children are being sexualized and exploited left and right on places like Insta, Youtube, often even encouraged by their parents as it can lucrative. And this is totally okay and encouraged.

Huh, why would that be OK and encouraged? I haven't heard a single person, either on HN or around me AFK that they're OK with chil;dren being sexualized and exploited on social media, who on earth would even try to make such an argument?

[ceejayoz]

The answer is, as usual, money.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-10-10/...

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/piper-rockelle...

> In the 147-page complaint, the plaintiffs described Smith as a “mean-spirited control freak” and alleged she made comments about children’s genitalia, shouted obscene and sexually graphic remarks at them, encouraged them to be “sexy” and “sexually aggressive” in videos, and inappropriately touched the children on their legs, thighs and buttocks. One plaintiff said Smith told her she was mailing Rochelle’s underwear to a man who liked to “sniff” it.

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Doesn't those articles, allegations and suits prove that it isn't "totally okay and encouraged" in general?

[ceejayoz]

This went on for years, amassing 10M subscribers and hundreds of millions of views, and it's a civil suit rather than a criminal one.