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Supremely ridiculous. All of you people posted pictures of your kids and let them and indoctrinate them into posting pictures of themselves on Zuckbook and Zuckbook properties like instagram. Zuck is in photos on the island. Even if Zuck is too much of a robot lizard to abuse kids himself he would sell a package access of photos to kids to his pedo creepy friends cheap and probably include a list of their interests and names of their friends too.
Compared to that a school photo is... fuck off, just fuck the fuck off with this ~~prudish~~ nonsense. Someone else said it but I sadly agree, at this point the result of the Epstein thing is going to be more Christian panic stranger danger nonsense and hyper-vigilance and freaking out at random people taking photos of scenic landscapes because your kids happen to be in the corner of the view and no actual movement against powerful pedophiles. More pizza parlors will be shot up and more enraged turbo-Facebook user moms will start screaming matches in public with wild accusations but the institutions, the powerful men, etc will continue to operate unhindered while the proles bicker among themselves and jump at shadows. Eventually in 15 years most people will begin to disbelieve it was anything other than another satanic panic and begin to question whether it was all just an overreaction and over-correct by doubting kids even when there's really reason to believe and allowing in even more surveillance because they don't want to be like the prudes they were manipulated into being a decade ago.
They are being ridiculous but I don't see what prudishness has to do with it
Perhaps you're right. I'm thinking of the whole evangelical culture, the 90s/2000s satanic panic I was brought up in as a young child and this type of thinking could easily lead to reaction, atomized people still posting all the photos of their kids for pedos on social media to consume but freaking out over how their kids dress, policing that kind of thing, not allowing kids to go out with friends, etc.