The immigration crackdown comes at a real cost, investigators told me. Here's one particularly poignant example I learned about: Videos have surfaced online of an unidentified child currently being violently sexually abused but agents don't have enough time to investigate and have lost a key contact

Based on data we got in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, DHS statistics show that the agents have worked about 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation than is typical and at least five times as many hours on immigration enforcement.

The minimalist/web brutalist style appears directly copied from ssi.inc's own manifesto about "Safe Superintelligence" from over a year ago. h/t @1wheel.bsky.social

And because this is a crime on and of the internet, the material is unlikely to go away soon. Videos of the abuse are still being traded, sold and shared. And they likely will be for some time:

It took months of undercover work and illustrates how the same mechanisms driving the creator economy – monetized interactions, fast video connections – are also enabling child sexual abuse.

Current status:

The fact that so much of it is going on in the open was often cited by guys on Telegram as proof that they were doing nothing wrong. They viewed it as tacit approval by the platforms. Here are some of those quotes:

The origination point of the lawsuit can be traced to a bar chart that @rich-harris.dev made in 2020 showing that Apple was way behind its peers in reporting child sexual abuse material

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/t...

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