A+ piece on the fearmongering, hysteria around "stranger danger" pedophilia/kidnapping by @reason @FreeRangeKidshttp://reason.com/blog/2016/06/21/unfounded-fears-of-pedophile-rings-stran …
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About 100 kids a year are kidnapped by a stranger. And about 8 of those end in murder.pic.twitter.com/MJHKPzKZPa
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Likelihood of kid getting kidnapped/killed by a stranger is less than 1% as large as likelihood of kid getting killed in car accident.
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And yet think about how central the "stranger danger" myth is to our cultural and political life.https://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/745340796237287425 …
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What other reason will lead us to sacrifice cell phone encryption?
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