No. of Recommendations: 5
If a parent is knowingly trafficking their child? Absolutely. The question to ask is why isn't that a prominent part of their Terms of Service?
It is part of their TOS. The issue is that the behavior described in the Times article isn't "knowingly trafficking their child." Parents posting pictures of their kids is permissible under the ToS - in fact, I suspect that literally millions of parents do that all the time. What's squicky about the instances described in the Times article are the interactions and discussions and transactions surrounding that content - but again, nothing illegal or "trafficking" about them, and probably nothing that violates the ToS.
I suspect the main reason these accounts aren't a violation of ToS is because they aren't actually the accounts of minors - they're nominally the accounts of the parents. And many of the most sickening quotes from the Times piece weren't on IG or FB, but on Telegram and other less monitored sites. If the creeps aren't doing the creepy stuff on IG or FB, it's not a violation of their ToS - and if they're interacting only with adults, and not the minors themselves, then there's probably very little that's a violation of their ToS.
They're already doing this and have been for years, often at the behest of the federal government. How much reach did you get if you posted in 2021 that COVID-19 started in a lab?
Right - and conservatives have been complaining that they shouldn't be doing this for years.
Do you agree with that position? That the tech companies shouldn't get to decide for themselves what they want on their site, and ban/demonetize the things they determine they want to get rid of?
