A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that dummy accounts that specified their age as 13 were regularly served up soft porn by Instagram's algorithms. Upon the accounts' creation, Instagram began showing the imaginary users 'moderately racy' content. 'Adult sex-content creators began appearing in the feeds in as little as three minutes,' the Journal reported.
In fact, porn is so ubiquitous online that it's tempting to dismiss the preponderance of porn available to children as mainly harmless. But childhood exposure to porn is a public-health concern with serious, long-term ramifications for children.
The problem with my friend's view is that while one has to go looking for bad neighborhoods, the internet's dangers—specifically and most perniciously, pornography—come looking for you, even if you happen to be a child.
Their interests are essentially collateral damage in adults' right to consume porn as they please, and a massive industry's interest in preserving its billions of dollars a year in revenue.
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